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

2. Who is Mrs. Sanstand supposedly a representation of?
(a) Womens Rights.
(b) Lovborg's mother.
(c) The King of England.
(d) Mother nature.

3. What does Mr. Sykes's spirit attempt to shoplift?
(a) A tie.
(b) A large set of knives.
(c) A nice pair of leather boots.
(d) A loaf of bread.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Woody think that the thing with the feathers is?

2. What secret does Netta reveal about Dorf?

3. What conclusion does Allen come to in "On Tripping Through a Copse Picking Violets"?

4. Why is Woody plagued with doubts about God?

5. What letter does Woody know his girlfriend by?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sigmund's relationship with Justine and Yvette?

2. Who is Dr. Osgood Mulford Twelge and what does he do?

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

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

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

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

7. Who are Netta and Dorf and what do they represent?

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

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

10. What do "On Seeing a Tree in Summer" and "On Tripping Through a Copse Picking Violets" seem to cover or determine?

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