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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. Who carries horn-rimmed glasses?
(a) Both
(b) Neither
(c) Peter
(d) Jerry

2. What does Peter think of these people?
(a) They are very different from him.
(b) They are unique.
(c) They are interesting.
(d) They are disgusting.

3. What does Jerry tell him?
(a) "You don't have to listen. Nobody is holding you here; remember that. Keep that in your mind"
(b) "Thank you for sitting here with me for such a long time."
(c) "I think you are an amazing man."
(d) "You should go home, because I may do something I will regret later."

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

5. When Peter says that he can't express himself too well, he says that he's in publishing, not in __________.
(a) Oration
(b) Writing
(c) Poetry
(d) Communication

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Peter live?

2. When Jerry talks about his dead parents, he describes them as a particular vaudeville act that is playing the ______ circuit now.

3. Where did Jerry's mom go when she left?

4. Who lives next to Jerry?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jerry admit to as Peter is pushed all the way over to one side of the bench?

2. What does Jerry buy in order to appeal to the dog?

3. What does Peter claim he does not care about hearing? What does he want?

4. Where does Jerry go as an orphan? What happens then?

5. Why does Jerry quickly interrupt Peter again?

6. What else does Jerry do to Peter as he is sitting next to him?

7. Describe the two characters.

8. How is Jerry increasingly making Peter feel? Why?

9. How does Jerry feel when returning from a movie?

10. Why does Jerry think Peter wouldn't understand?

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