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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grady relates to the guest speaker's ideas about what types of figures?
(a) Deities.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Doppelgangers.
(d) Icons.

2. What term does Grady use when he refers to the malady that had afflicted Albert Vetch?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Midnight disease.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Anxiety.

3. Grady sees Hannah dancing with which character at Carl Franklin's Hi-Hat in Chapter 12?
(a) Q.
(b) Crabtree.
(c) Emily.
(d) James.

4. In Chapter 7, it is revealed that Hannah lives in a rented room in whose home?
(a) Crabtree's.
(b) Grady's.
(c) Emily's.
(d) Sara's.

5. Who warns Crabtree not to get personally involved with James?
(a) Tony.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Q.
(d) Grady.

6. What position does Walter Gaskell hold at the college where Grady teaches?
(a) Dean.
(b) Environmental science department head.
(c) President.
(d) English department head.

7. Grady left home at a young age in late June of which year?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1984.

8. Grady tells the reader that his father died by what method?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Illness.
(c) Accident.
(d) Homicide.

9. When Grady enters his home in Chapter 15, he opens the closet and inhales a scent associated with which character?
(a) Sara.
(b) Crabtree.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Emily.

10. By what letter of the alphabet does Grady refer to the guest speaker featured in Chapter 10?
(a) M.
(b) Q.
(c) L.
(d) W.

11. As Hannah and Grady are loading James into a car so he can be driven home, he opens his eyes and calls out for what item?
(a) A knapsack.
(b) A blessing.
(c) A book of poetry.
(d) A cigarette.

12. How did Grady first meet Hannah?
(a) He got her name from Crabtree.
(b) He saw her at the bowling alley.
(c) She took a class with him.
(d) She delivered his mail.

13. On which street does Grady live in a house originally built in 1915?
(a) Denniston.
(b) Elm.
(c) Madrona.
(d) Randall.

14. Grady tells the reader in Chapter 2 that after he left home at a young age, he did not return for how many years?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 25.

15. What type of event is at the center of Chapter 6?
(a) A party.
(b) A wedding.
(c) A bar mitzvah.
(d) A funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first character to ever suggest that Crabtree may one day be Grady's literary editor?

2. Which object in an award-winning film is discussed by three characters in Chapter 13?

3. It is revealed in Chapter 7 that which character is interested in particular types of Hollywood deaths?

4. What is the name of the annual event co-planned by Grady, along with others?

5. In what genre did Albert Vetch create short stories throughout his life?

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