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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the new developments in the supermarket?
(a) Self-checkout lanes.
(b) Butcher's Corner, Bakery and Candlestick maker.
(c) Organic produce.
(d) Butcher's Corner and the Bakery.

2. What magazine does Jack's doctor mention the latest issue of?
(a) American Mortician.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) The American Medical Journal.
(d) The Lancet.

3. According to Jack, how is Chakravarty's English?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Just OK.
(c) Halting.
(d) Broken.

4. What does Heinrich bring with him when they finally evacuate?
(a) Highway map.
(b) Radio.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) All of the above.

5. Why did Babette want to take Dylar?
(a) For backpain.
(b) For a condition.
(c) For weight loss.
(d) For high blood pressure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack discover hidden in the bathroom?

2. The last line of this novel refers to the cults of what?

3. What distinguishes Babette from Jack's other wives?

4. What is the name of the German book Jack sees at Howard's?

5. What is remarkable about the nuns Jack brings Willie to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Willie Mink?

2. How did the mock evacuation in Chapter 28 turn out?

3. What is the Law of Ruins Jack describes?

4. Why does Jack follow Winnie Richards in Chapter 25? Are his reasons valid?

5. According to Heinrich, what are the effects of Nyodene Derivative?

6. Why is Heinrich crouched outside on the roof at the beginning of Book 2?

7. Murray says that there are two kinds of people, killers and diers. Which one does Jack say he is and why?

8. What is Orest Mercator trying to do?

9. When Murray and Jack discuss the weird feelings they have about Howard, what are some of the things they mention that just do not feel right?

10. What happened to Cotsakis, Murray's rival in Elvis studies?

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