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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. What is the last name of the student named James whom Grady spies lurking around outside in Chapter 6?
(a) Miller.
(b) Leer.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Reeves.

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

3. Who shoots and kills Doctor Dee in Chapter 8?
(a) Grady.
(b) James.
(c) Sara.
(d) Walter.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chapter 3 begins, Grady is waiting for Emily to emerge from an advertising agency. Who is Emily?

2. What term does Grady apply to Albert Vetch early in Chapter 1?

3. If and when Grady completes and publishes Wonder Boys, it will be which novel?

4. In Chapter 2, it is revealed that Grady and Crabtree first met in what location?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Characterize Grady's relationship with Crabtree.

2. For how long has Grady been working on the novel Wonder Boys by the time the novel opens in Chapter 1?

3. How do Q's ideas included in his lecture in Chapter 10 echo those in Grady's philosophy about the "midnight disease" (23)?

4. What is the significance of the phrase, "He's writing his name in water" (93)?

5. How does Grady react, inwardly and outwardly, to the news Sara delivers in Chapter 5?

6. For what reason is Grady still in shock that Sara ever became involved with him?

7. In what way does the motif of dreams emerge within Chapter 14 and for what purpose?

8. How does Doctor Dee end up dead by the end of Chapter 8?

9. What does Grady see as the main difficulty he is having with completing his fourth novel Wonder Boys?

10. What does Grady do with Doctor Dee's body after it is determined that the dog is dead?

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