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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 can the reader learn from this section about people who are dead and come back as ghosts?
(a) They are wicked and vengeful creatures.
(b) They are sent back as punishment.
(c) They are just people who happen to be dead.
(d) They are extremely enlightened and have come back to share deep wisdom.

2. Why does the narrator believe there are no later plays by Allen?
(a) Because no one wanted to read them so he stopped.
(b) Because he began writing movies.
(c) Because Allen's first plays were just pure luck.
(d) Because Allen ran out of observations.

3. What did Woody's father wear to his first play?
(a) Angel wings.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A gas mask.
(d) A toga.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Kaiser find out about Flossie?

2. What year does Dr. Twelge claim was a popular year for spirits to leave their bodies and go to India?

3. What is it that Dorf is trying to get from his brother?

4. In the end, what does God do just before Abraham is about to sacrifice Issac?

5. Why does Sigmund go to secretarial school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the shepherd find in the caves and what do experts think of this discovery?

2. What is Anna and what does she discuss with Kleinman?

3. What does Kleinman learn about the killer as he speaks to him? What does Kleinman suggest to the killer?

4. What is the story of the young woman and the housefly in "The Predators"?

5. In "The Sacrifice" how does Man offend Nature? What must be done to appease Nature?

6. What happens to Klavar Akdal in "I Prefer to Yodel"?

7. What is the third and final method civil disobedience the author describes and how is it described?

8. Who does the narrator compare Allen's play to and what excuse does the narrator give for there being no later plays?

9. How do the oppressors and oppressed behave?

10. Who is Lovborg and his women? Who are his women supposed to symbolize?

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