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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Norman agree to do with Jim?
(a) Move in together
(b) Go into business together
(c) Take a vacation
(d) Have a drink
2. What does Norman think gyppoing would do for him?
(a) Give him some fine motor skills
(b) Develop his artistic sensibilities
(c) Help him earn extra money for graduate school
(d) Build up his upper body strength
3. Why does Norman refuse to complain to Jim about his sawing?
(a) Because Jim will fire him
(b) Because Jim will think he has won some unspoken war
(c) Because Jim will think he is a cry baby
(d) Because Jim will call him names
4. Why does Norman agree to gyppo instead of work for wages?
(a) He has an entrepreneurial streak.
(b) He thinks he can make more money that way.
(c) He enjoys working outside.
(d) He has never tried it before.
5. Why is Norman always determined to stay up with Jim's pace?
(a) He wants to earn more money than Jim.
(b) He wants to build his upper body strength.
(c) He wants a good performance review.
(d) He never wants Jim to win out over him.
6. Eventually how does Norman come to feel about Jim?
(a) He considers him like a brother.
(b) He hates him.
(c) He is his best friend.
(d) He can take him or leave him.
7. What does Jim never eat at breakfast?
(a) pie
(b) bacon
(c) toast
(d) eggs
8. What happens a few days later?
(a) Norman leaves for school.
(b) Norman asks Jim to see one of his prostitutes.
(c) Jim's ex-wife flirts with Norman.
(d) They get a really big snow storm.
9. What does Norman take away from his experience with Jim?
(a) How to cook Shrimp Scampi
(b) How to split a log
(c) How to avoid competition in personal relationships
(d) How to be a good pimp
10. Jim is a big talker and always brags about _____________________.
(a) his girlfriend
(b) his new car
(c) his winter job
(d) his bank account
11. What is gyppoing?
(a) An intricate method of cutting designs into paper
(b) A method of applying lacquer to wood finishes
(c) A very delicate and finely balanced type of circus act
(d) A method of logging where payment is made by the number of board feet cut per day
12. Why does Jim gravitate toward Norman?
(a) He knows Norman's family.
(b) Norman beat him at arm wrestling.
(c) He senses someone who can keep up with him.
(d) He has respect for college men.
13. What form is the final communication Norman receives from Jim?
(a) A short note
(b) An e-mail
(c) A long letter
(d) A fax
14. What does Jim brag about over dinner one night?
(a) His new car
(b) His house
(c) His physical strength
(d) His girls
15. How does Norman meet Jim Grierson?
(a) They are college roommates.
(b) They are pen pals.
(c) They grew up together.
(d) They spent a summer logging in the woods on the Blackfoot River.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Norman do to revive himself?
2. How does Norman end each day?
3. How does Norman view the answer to #93?
4. What does Norman think of this last bit of information?
5. What effect does this work style have on the two men?
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