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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Woody's brother use to beat him over the head?
(a) A rubber chicken.
(b) A dinosaur bone.
(c) A pig bladder.
(d) A small child.

2. Who does Woody's girlfriend run away with?
(a) A circus geek.
(b) The mayor.
(c) His brother.
(d) A woman named June.

3. According to Allen, why is a sit-down strike effective?
(a) Because no one is at work.
(b) Because the lawmakers hate seeing crowds of sitters.
(c) Because people are making an obstacle of themselves.
(d) Because all the seats are now taken.

4. What type of tree does Allen consider in "On Seeing a Tree in Summer"?
(a) Elm.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Cherry.

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

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

7. What is it that the oppressed want in a revolution?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) To enjoy the fruits of their labors.
(c) Change.
(d) The end of the exploitation by the oppressors.

8. What does the doctor want to do to the strangler?
(a) Give him a taste of this own medicine.
(b) Throw him off a very tall building.
(c) Put him in jail for life.
(d) Dissect him down to the last chromosome.

9. What is Allen considering in "On Seeing a Tree in Summer"?
(a) The best time of year to plant trees.
(b) Which trees are better than others.
(c) The beauty of the deciduous forest.
(d) The motivations and characteristics of a tree.

10. What type of civil disobedience is Allen describing?
(a) Religiously based.
(b) Violent.
(c) Non-violent.
(d) Gender based.

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

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

13. What author does Kaiser brush up on using a Monarch College Outline?
(a) Swift.
(b) Austen.
(c) Melville.
(d) Dickens.

14. Which of the following is considered a highly visible type of protest according to Allen?
(a) Both of the answers are wrong.
(b) Demonstrating and marching.
(c) Hunger Srike.
(d) Both of the answers are correct.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe there are no later plays by Allen?

2. What is Word Babcock's line of work?

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

4. What letter does Woody know his girlfriend by?

5. What does the parrot become in one of Woody's story ideas?

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