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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vincent put his patients to sleep?
(a) Novocain.
(b) Laughing gas.
(c) By knocking them out.
(d) By reading them Dreiser.

2. From what time period did the phrase "spiffy" presumably originate?
(a) Stone Age.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Colonial.
(d) Medieval.

3. What fear does the critic note O'Shawn have after learning about the Trojan horse?
(a) The fear of wooden toys.
(b) The fear of people hailing from Troy.
(c) Fear of receiving contaminated gifts.
(d) Fear of large horses.

4. Which president of the United States does Flo dance on the same stage with?
(a) Harding.
(b) McKinley.
(c) Coolidge.
(d) Hoover.

5. What is the name of a tiny bird that refers to itself in the third person?
(a) A nurk.
(b) A myna.
(c) Tom.
(d) An orchy.

6. How does Mrs. Freem explain her husband's death?
(a) She accidentally shot him while hunting.
(b) She accidentally hit him with her car.
(c) He fell out of a window.
(d) He slipped while showering.

7. Who does this essay assert was the same person as Shakespeare?
(a) Pope.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Marlowe.

8. What type of animal is a flying snoll?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A lizard.
(c) A fish.
(d) A caterpillar.

9. Who is Vincent Van Gogh writing to?
(a) His mother.
(b) God.
(c) Randy.
(d) Theo.

10. What does the author of Slang Origins use to discover the origin of certain slang expression?
(a) Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
(b) A credible authority.
(c) Research of historical almanacs.
(d) His own common sense and friends' opinions.

11. Who is the author of Alice in Wonderland?
(a) Hathaway.
(b) Carroll.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. Where was Mr. Walker's corpse found?
(a) In the television set.
(b) Outside in the pool.
(c) On the kitchen table.
(d) In his bed.

13. What does Hepatitis note as not having an end?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) The world.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) A circle.

14. What is the name of the O'Shawn poem being reviewed?
(a) Beyond Ichor.
(b) Above here.
(c) The Lives of Those That Live.
(d) Poem.

15. Which of the following authors are not mentioned in the essay "But soft...Real Soft"?
(a) Milton.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Pepys.
(d) Austen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the reader learn O'Shawn is afraid of?

2. What type of gem is stolen in "The Stolen Gem"?

3. What news does Weinstein break to his ex-wife?

4. What is Weinstein contemplating as he lies on his bed?

5. In the game lamming, what did people put on themselves?

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