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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Chapter 3 begins, Grady is waiting for Emily to emerge from an advertising agency. Who is Emily?
(a) Grady's third wife.
(b) Grady's first wife.
(c) Grady's second wife.
(d) Grady's fourth wife.

3. The brothers featured at the center of the novel Wonder Boys reside in which state?
(a) Utah.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Ohio.

4. In Chapter 15, it is revealed that Grady's house lies what distance away from the campus where he teaches?
(a) 1/2 a mile.
(b) 3/4 of a mile.
(c) 1 and 7/10 of a mile.
(d) 2 miles.

5. Grady finds by the end of Chapter 10 that he does not have the heart to tell which character about Doctor Dee's death?
(a) James.
(b) Emily.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) Sara.

6. If and when Grady completes and publishes Wonder Boys, it will be which novel?
(a) His 3rd.
(b) His 8th.
(c) His 2nd.
(d) His 4th.

7. In Chapter 5, Grady goes to Sara's house and she informs him of what fact?
(a) She is being stalked.
(b) She is getting divorced.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She wants to leave her husband.

8. In Chapter 3, Grady is driving the car while which character sits in the backseat with Crabtree?
(a) Emily.
(b) Miss Sloviak.
(c) Walter.
(d) Sara.

9. In what year of college was Grady enrolled when his grandmother died of pneumonia?
(a) Junior.
(b) Sophomore.
(c) Senior.
(d) Freshman.

10. For how many years has Grady been friends with Crabtree?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

11. After a brief conflict in the parking lot at Carl Franklin's Hi-Hat, Grady goes back in and is invited to dance by which character?
(a) Crabtree.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Sara.
(d) Antonia.

12. Which character's dreams do Hannah and Grady discuss in Chapter 14?
(a) Walter.
(b) Crabtree.
(c) Emily.
(d) James.

13. In Chapter 12, Crabtree insists on reviewing the manuscript of whose latest novel?
(a) Grady.
(b) James.
(c) Walter.
(d) Hannah.

14. Who was the first character to ever suggest that Crabtree may one day be Grady's literary editor?
(a) Grady.
(b) Grady's grandmother.
(c) The professor.
(d) Crabtree.

15. Grady recalls that he and Crabtree discovered Carl Franklin's Hi-Hat between which two of Grady's marriages?
(a) 3rd and 4th.
(b) 2nd and 3rd.
(c) 4th and 5th.
(d) 1st and 2nd.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Grady first meet Hannah?

2. What was the source of the sounds that used to emerge from Albert Vetch's room at the hotel?

3. Wonder Boys is a novel about how many brothers in one family?

4. Grady tells the reader in Chapter 2 that after he left home at a young age, he did not return for how many years?

5. How many years before narrative present did Grady and Emily begin their courtship?

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