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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. How much money is Flossie blackmailing Word for?
(a) $1,000,000.
(b) $100.
(c) $100,000.
(d) $10,000.

2. Which of the following things has Albert Sykes's spirit left his body to go off and do on its own?
(a) Vaction.
(b) Shop.
(c) Drink.
(d) All are correct.

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

4. What year does Dr. Twelge claim was a popular year for spirits to leave their bodies and go to India?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1998.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which of the essays is morality discussed?

3. Why is Woody plagued with doubts about God?

4. What news of Hacker does Gina reveal to Kleinman?

5. What role does Flossie play in this story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ailment does Woody's nephew seem to have and what does this cause Woody to think of regarding Emily Dickinson's quote?

2. How does Kaiser discover where the call girl service is based?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Berte kill herself?

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

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

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

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