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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Woody not say is necessary for true love?
(a) Adherence to the same religious beliefs.
(b) Tenderness.
(c) General proximity.
(d) A modest quantity of raw physical strength.

2. What does Allen state about money and happiness?
(a) Better to be rich then happy.
(b) It does not matter if you are poor if you have your health.
(c) Money is utterly unnecessary.
(d) Money is preferable to being poor, even though you cannot buy happiness.

3. What does the parrot become in one of Woody's story ideas?
(a) The secretary of agriculture.
(b) The Statue of Liberty.
(c) A large fighting robot.
(d) An eagle.

4. What role does Flossie play in this story?
(a) She is the madam of the call-girl service.
(b) She is Word's wife.
(c) She is a police woman.
(d) She is a professor at a nearby university.

5. What does Kaiser find the girls studying when he arrives at Flossie's call-girl center of operations?
(a) They are reading the Wall Street Journal and other prestigious periodicals.
(b) They are studying Penguin classics.
(c) They are reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
(d) They are watching PBS.

6. What is Word Babcock's line of work?
(a) Joy-buzzer manufacturer
(b) Bus driver.
(c) Toilet paper factory manager.
(d) Pizza delivery man.

7. Who was Aristonidis?
(a) The man who invented the seance.
(b) A 16th century count.
(c) Dr. Twelge's cat.
(d) A well-known photographer.

8. Which of the following does God do to test Job's faithfulness to him?
(a) Smacks Mrs. Job in the head with a polo mallet.
(b) Has Job arrested for tax fraud.
(c) Eats all Job's favorite ice cream.
(d) He does not talk to Job for a year.

9. According to the narrator what have Jorgen Lovborg's plays brought about?
(a) A good example of a strong male character.
(b) A sense of hope for all Scandinavian playwrights.
(c) A safer means of weighing herring.
(d) The true depiction of comedy.

10. In the end, what does God do just before Abraham is about to sacrifice Issac?
(a) God strikes Abraham down.
(b) He tells Abraham to kill Issac good and dead.
(c) He tells Abraham is was just a joke.
(d) God takes Issac away in a cloud of fire.

11. Where are the essays at the beginning of the story supposed to be coming from?
(a) An online blog.
(b) A outline for a comedy show.
(c) A book by Woody's favorite author.
(d) Woody's secret journal.

12. Which of the following words best describes the god shown in The Scrolls?
(a) Stand-offish.
(b) Uninvolved.
(c) Merciful.
(d) Arbitrary.

13. What is it that the oppressors want to maintain?
(a) Their rights.
(b) The status quo.
(c) Their political powers.
(d) Their financial security.

14. What happens to Klavar Akdal when the roof of the hen house collapses on him?
(a) He is left forever blind and bald.
(b) He is crippled on the right side of his body.
(c) He dies.
(d) He can see the future.

15. Why does Sigmund go to secretarial school?
(a) Because it was prophesied.
(b) To impress Justine.
(c) To earn his law degree.
(d) To learn shorthand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Dubbs's brother warn his still-living siblings about?

2. Why does Word use Flossie's call-girl service?

3. How do the elders decide to sacrifice the young woman?

4. What does Woody's brother use to beat him over the head?

5. What is one way the oppressors can end a hunger strike according to Allen?

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