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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jerry shares that he doesn't like to talk to people all the time, Peter wonders if he is to be the _________ for the day.
(a) Special person
(b) Target
(c) Lab rat
(d) Guinea pig

2. What does Jerry find to be obvious about the picture frames?
(a) They are people he has known for many years.
(b) He has nobody to put in the frames.
(c) They are from Target.
(d) They are pictures of his family.

3. Who does Jerry abhor?
(a) The woman on the third floor.
(b) Peter.
(c) The landlady with a dog.
(d) His neighbor.

4. To what is the landlady compared?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A princess.
(c) A watchdog.
(d) A mother hen.

5. When Peter calls Jerry a 'dear fellow' what does Jerry accuse him of being?
(a) Humorous
(b) Patronizing
(c) Too quiet
(d) A snob

6. Where does Peter do this?
(a) At a large law firm.
(b) At a small private practice.
(c) At a small textbook publishing house.
(d) At a large car dealership.

7. What does Jerry blatantly tell Peter?
(a) About his loving wife.
(b) About his wonderful parents.
(c) About his children.
(d) About his worthless parents who are dead.

8. How does the landlady act towards Jerry?
(a) She only talks to him when rent is due.
(b) She emits fumes and sexual lust towards him.
(c) She is understanding and sweet.
(d) She does not talk to him.

9. How does Jerry quickly respond?
(a) With anger.
(b) With surprise.
(c) With inquisitiveness.
(d) With agitation.

10. Jerry wonders if Peter has pets. How many does Peter say his family has?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Three

11. Where does Peter work?
(a) Large corporation
(b) A school
(c) Doctor's office
(d) A small publishing house

12. Where did Jerry's mother's sister die?
(a) In Jerry's arms
(b) In front of an omnibus
(c) On the stairs to her apartment
(d) Near the zoo

13. Who does Peter consider to be the finer writer when Jerry gives him a choice?
(a) Freud
(b) Tolstoy
(c) Baudelaire
(d) Marquand

14. What does Jerry want to know about writers?
(a) What makes them want to write.
(b) What they like.
(c) How much money they make.
(d) What training you need to be a writer.

15. When Jerry talks about his dead parents, he describes them as a particular vaudeville act that is playing the ______ circuit now.
(a) Cloud
(b) Quiet
(c) Old
(d) Ninth

Short Answer Questions

1. Who carries horn-rimmed glasses?

2. What does Jerry tell Peter will happen to him if he uses a pipe?

3. Of what does Peter wonder nervously?

4. To whom does the answer to #80 say that?

5. According to Jerry, what did Freud wear when he had cancer of the mouth and his jaw had to be removed?

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