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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim invite Norman to do?
(a) Have dinner at Norman's home
(b) Go out for a couple beers
(c) Take a road trip
(d) Go to a ballgame

2. How does Norman try to avoid altercations with Jim?
(a) He does not speak to Jim.
(b) He keeps a cool head.
(c) He works on alternate days.
(d) He tries to stay out of his way.

3. What happens by the end of the summer?
(a) Norman and Jim have a huge fight.
(b) Norman and Jim decide to room together.
(c) Norman and Jim decide never to talk to each other again.
(d) Norman agrees to work with Jim next summer.

4. What does Norman think of this last bit of information?
(a) Jim needs to include some pictures for Norman to believe it.
(b) Jim's ego is very small to continually behave this way.
(c) Jim has finally found something which got the better of him.
(d) Jim must be lying again.

5. Jim is a big talker and always brags about _____________________.
(a) his new car
(b) his girlfriend
(c) his winter job
(d) his bank account

6. How does Jim abuse men?
(a) He engages in power struggles all the time.
(b) He hits them on the jaw.
(c) He flirts with their wives.
(d) He picks fights.

7. Which men does Jim especially pick on in camp?
(a) The small guys
(b) The young guys
(c) The cooks
(d) The new guys

8. What is Jim's overall personality?
(a) Irritable sometimes but easygoing most of the time
(b) Generous to a fault
(c) Very gracious and charming
(d) Self-centered and determined to prove himself better than everyone else

9. Eventually how does Norman come to feel about Jim?
(a) He considers him like a brother.
(b) He is his best friend.
(c) He hates him.
(d) He can take him or leave him.

10. What is the subject of Jim's latest brags?
(a) A one-month European vacation
(b) Jim's conquest of a large woman
(c) A new boat he has bought
(d) A deer he had hunted and killed

11. What happens at the end of the season?
(a) Norman gets married.
(b) Norman takes a well-deserved vacation.
(c) Norman and Jim go fishing together.
(d) Norman runs into Jim in town.

12. Why does Norman accept the invitation?
(a) Because he is curious about Jim's house
(b) Because his mother tells him to do it
(c) Because he does not have anything better to do
(d) Out of politeness

13. Jim's stories bore Norman to the point of ___________________.
(a) hysteria
(b) tears
(c) anger
(d) frustration

14. What does Norman think gyppoing would do for him?
(a) Build up his upper body strength
(b) Help him earn extra money for graduate school
(c) Develop his artistic sensibilities
(d) Give him some fine motor skills

15. What happens to ruin this good feeling?
(a) He reads his mail which is mostly bills.
(b) He has to return to camp and encounter Jim again.
(c) He watches the evening news.
(d) He reads the evening paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jim get Norman's contact information?

2. Why is Norman always determined to stay up with Jim's pace?

3. What is gyppoing?

4. How does Norman feel about Jim after the affair?

5. In what area of Montana do Jim and Norman work?

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