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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Norman feel about Jim at first sight?
(a) He thinks Jim is very kind.
(b) He wants to be his friend.
(c) He dislikes him.
(d) He is drawn to his humor.

3. Why does Norman refuse to complain to Jim about his sawing?
(a) Because Jim will fire him
(b) Because Jim will call him names
(c) Because Jim will think he is a cry baby
(d) Because Jim will think he has won some unspoken war

4. What does Jim never eat at breakfast?
(a) bacon
(b) pie
(c) eggs
(d) toast

5. What does Jim brag about over dinner one night?
(a) His new car
(b) His physical strength
(c) His house
(d) His girls

6. What effect does this work style have on the two men?
(a) They are anxious to come to work each day.
(b) It is the best situation either one has ever experienced.
(c) It is stressful and nerve wracking.
(d) It is very pleasant.

7. How does Norman view the answer to #93?
(a) They seem very nice.
(b) They laugh all the time.
(c) They are a bit standoffish.
(d) They are very quiet.

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

9. Why does this affair especially anger Norman?
(a) The woman is a friend of Norman's family.
(b) Jim flaunts his affair to the men in camp.
(c) The woman is half Jim's age.
(d) Norman had wanted to date the woman.

10. How is Jim built?
(a) He is tall and lanky.
(b) He is a large man.
(c) He has a beer belly.
(d) He has really long arms.

11. What does Norman not suggest to Jim?
(a) That they join a bowling team
(b) That they become partners again
(c) That they go to a movie
(d) That they invest in real estate

12. What does Jim not ask Norman to do?
(a) Go on vacation with him
(b) Lend him money
(c) Be his partner again
(d) Date his ex-wife

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

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

15. Why is Norman always determined to stay up with Jim's pace?
(a) He wants to earn more money than Jim.
(b) He never wants Jim to win out over him.
(c) He wants a good performance review.
(d) He wants to build his upper body strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Norman do to revive himself?

2. How does Norman end each day?

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

4. Why does Norman accept the invitation?

5. What is gyppoing?

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