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Wonder Boys Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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 name of the publishing house waiting for Grady to finish writing his latest novel?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Papillon.
(c) Barbazon.
(d) Bartizan.

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

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

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

5. Which character is attacked by Doctor Dee in Chapter 8?
(a) Grady.
(b) Walter.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) Sara.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 12, Crabtree insists on reviewing the manuscript of whose latest novel?

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

4. In Chapter 11, it is revealed that Grady's father worked in what position?

5. Grady tells the reader that his father died by what method?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grady mean when he repeatedly refers to the "midnight disease" (23) in the novel?

2. What is the significance of the date January 14, 1954 featured in Chapter 8?

3. Who is Q?

4. In what way does the motif of dreams emerge in Chapter 3 and for what purpose does Chabon utilize the motif?

5. What major news does Sara reveal to Grady in Chapter 5?

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

7. What type of narrator is featured in Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys?

8. How old was Grady when his mother died and what was the cause of her death, as revealed in Chapter 11?

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

10. Though Grady cannot remember the night of his father's suicide, he remembers what other event vividly from around that time?

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