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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. How does Norman meet Jim Grierson?
(a) They are pen pals.
(b) They spent a summer logging in the woods on the Blackfoot River.
(c) They grew up together.
(d) They are college roommates.

2. Why does Jim gravitate toward Norman?
(a) He knows Norman's family.
(b) Norman beat him at arm wrestling.
(c) He has respect for college men.
(d) He senses someone who can keep up with him.

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

4. How does Jim get Norman's contact information?
(a) From the school
(b) From Norman's family
(c) From Norman's last employer
(d) From Norman's former girlfriend

5. What does Norman feel Jim is doing all summer?
(a) Working on his upper body strength
(b) Improving his reading skills
(c) Waging an undeclared war
(d) Trying to improve his social standing

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens by the end of the summer?

2. What happens at the end of the season?

3. Eventually how does Norman come to feel about Jim?

4. With whom does Jim have an affair?

5. Jim's stories bore Norman to the point of ___________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Norman meet one summer while logging in the woods?

2. What happens when Jim invites Norman to his home for dinner?

3. What is Jim's complaint about the cooks?

4. How does Norman regain some composure after his trying days with Jim?

5. What question does Jim not ask Norman at dinner?

6. What does Norman fear about Jim?

7. What happens when Norman returns to college?

8. What does Jim never eat at breakfast?

9. What does Norman observe about Jim's behavior with the other men?

10. Where is the location of the woods where Norman works?

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