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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. Why does Word use Flossie's call-girl service?
(a) He is trying to brush up on his literary knowledge for a game show.
(b) He does not care about the literature; he is in love with one of the call-girls.
(c) For intellectual stimulation that his wife can't provide.
(d) Because he is a lonely bachelor who just wants company.

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

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

4. Who helped catch the Dusseldorf Strangler?
(a) Shafari.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Marx.
(d) Londos.

5. What is the doctor's last dying request of Kleinman?
(a) He asks Kleinman not fail the group.
(b) He asks Kleinman to remove the knife from his back.
(c) He asks Kleinman to give a note to his mother.
(d) He makes Kleinman promise to tell no one that he is dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much does Gina charge Kleinman for kissing her?

3. What weapon does the killer use to murder Kleinman?

4. What does the narrator claim that Dorf and Netta symbolize?

5. What is Dmitri?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Natasha in the ballet "Dmitri"?

2. Who is Albert Sykes and what is his psychic phenomenon?

3. Who is Kaiser Lupowitz?

4. How does God help a small business owner and what is the response of the other business owners?

5. How does God "test" job and why?

6. How does Flossie try to blackmail Word?

7. What advice does Allen offer in "On Frugality"?

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

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

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

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