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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters is NOT involved in the Chapter 13 conversation about the meaning of particular object featured in an award-winning film?
(a) Q.
(b) Sara.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) James.

2. In what genre did Albert Vetch create short stories throughout his life?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Romance.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Horror.

3. Grady discovers the jacket James stole inside of a bag containing what other item?
(a) A bottle of pills.
(b) A bottle of vodka.
(c) A novel manuscript.
(d) A gun.

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

5. In what type of Hollywood deaths is one particular character interested throughout the narrative?
(a) Overdoses.
(b) Murders.
(c) Drownings.
(d) Suicides.

6. How many years before narrative present did Grady and Emily begin their courtship?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

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

8. When Grady sees James lurking around outside in Chapter 6, James is holding what object in his hand?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) A bouquet of flowers.

9. Who owned the McClelland Hotel where Albert Vetch lived?
(a) Grady's sister.
(b) Vetch's aunt.
(c) The mayor.
(d) Grady's grandmother.

10. 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) Sara.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Crabtree.

11. Grady discovers in Chapter 14 that James has stolen a jacket that formerly belonged to whom?
(a) Cher.
(b) Liberace.
(c) Joe DiMaggio.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

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

13. The setting of Chapter 8 is the home of the family with which last name?
(a) Warfield.
(b) McHugh.
(c) Gaskell.
(d) Johnson.

14. 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 blessing.
(b) A book of poetry.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A knapsack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On which street does Grady live in a house originally built in 1915?

2. How old was Grady when he found Albert Vetch dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound?

3. What is the last name of the student named James whom Grady spies lurking around outside in Chapter 6?

4. What term does Grady use when he refers to the malady that had afflicted Albert Vetch?

5. What position does Walter Gaskell hold at the college where Grady teaches?

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