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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Grady when he found Albert Vetch dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound?
(a) 21.
(b) 11.
(c) 30.
(d) 14.

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

4. What is the name of the annual event co-planned by Grady, along with others?
(a) Speakapalooza.
(b) SpeakFest.
(c) WordFest.
(d) Wordapalooza.

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

6. In Chapter 2, it is revealed that Grady and Crabtree first met in what location?
(a) College.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) The workplace.
(d) Elementary school.

7. In Chapter 9, Grady drives James to a parking spot near what location?
(a) A mall.
(b) A movie theater.
(c) A library.
(d) A lecture hall.

8. When Emily does not emerge from the advertising agency, what happens next?
(a) Grady goes in to get Emily.
(b) Grady admits that Emily had left their marriage that morning.
(c) Walter goes in to get Emily.
(d) Crabtree calls Emily on her cell phone.

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

13. In what setting does Chapter 10 take place?
(a) Arntzen Hall.
(b) Thaw Hall.
(c) Thorne Hall.
(d) Fraser Hall.

14. Where does Grady put Doctor Dee at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) On the couch.
(b) On his own bed.
(c) In the trunk of his car.
(d) In the back of an ambulance.

15. At the time when Grady left his grandmother's home, they lived in the western part of which state?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the film discussed by three characters in Chapter 13?

2. Who tells Grady in Chapter 11 that she thinks Crabtree is romantically attracted to James?

3. In what type of Hollywood deaths is one particular character interested throughout the narrative?

4. On what part of the body does Doctor Dee attack someone in Chapter 8?

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?

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