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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Peter feel for listening to such a crazy story for so long?
(a) Sad.
(b) Confused and furious.
(c) Nervous and worried.
(d) Excited and happy.

2. What does Peter do to Jerry at this point?
(a) He pushes Jerry.
(b) He leaves Jerry.
(c) He yells at Jerry.
(d) He stops Jerry.

3. When does the dog bother Jerry?
(a) All the time
(b) Only when he comes in
(c) Only when he leaves
(d) Only when Jerry is eating

4. How does the play end?
(a) Jerry dies.
(b) Peter holds Jerry in his arms until the police arrive.
(c) Jerry gets off the bench. He was pretending to die.
(d) Peter dies.

5. What does Jerry reveal about the dog?
(a) It is permanently crippled.
(b) It is at an animal hospital.
(c) It is dead.
(d) It is alive.

6. When Peter winces as Jerry is telling his story, what does Jerry tell him to do?
(a) To turn around
(b) To not react
(c) To leave
(d) To give him advice

7. What happened to the dog?
(a) He became deathly ill
(b) He didn't eat the burger
(c) He died instantly
(d) He walked away

8. What does Jerry say would probably happen if a policeman did come over?
(a) Write up a ticket
(b) Yell at both of them
(c) Nothing
(d) Take Peter in as a nut

9. Why does Jerry decide to kill the dog?
(a) The landlady loves the dog.
(b) The door bites him.
(c) The dog is ugly.
(d) The dog is still monstrous to him.

10. How is Jerry as he continues speaking to Peter?
(a) Angry.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Panicked.
(d) Content.

11. What does Jerry say that enrages Peter?
(a) That he is bad looking
(b) That he is a coward
(c) That he couldn't get his wife with a male child
(d) That he is a vegetable

12. How does Peter feel now?
(a) Irritated and irate.
(b) Tired and sad.
(c) Exhausted and defeated.
(d) Worried and anxious.

13. Why does Peter say he originally spoke to Jerry?
(a) He though Jerry looked nice.
(b) He thought Jerry was in trouble.
(c) He thought Jerry could tell him about the zoo.
(d) He thought Jerry needed someone to talk to.

14. Peter is honest when Jerry asks him what he thinks of him. He says, "Well I must confess that this wasn't the kind of afternoon I'd ____________."
(a) Like to repeat
(b) Anticipated
(c) Dreamed of
(d) Wanted

15. What does Jerry say that the landlady probably eats?
(a) Garbage
(b) Pretzels
(c) Nothing
(d) Lettuce

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerry do for the first time?

2. What did the dog get a piece of on the second day Jerry was around?

3. Animals are _____________ to Jerry, according to his own observations.

4. What does Jerry tell Peter?

5. Why is the bench important to Peter?

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