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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. What else does Jim gloat about?
(a) How beautiful his ex-wife is
(b) How much money he made this year
(c) Logging and the work he hopes to do next summer
(d) The vacation he is going to take

2. What else does Jim do during the winter?
(a) He works on cars.
(b) He reads voraciously.
(c) He rehabs old houses.
(d) He volunteers at a homeless center.

3. What does Jim complain to the cooks about?
(a) That they do not serve pie for breakfast
(b) That they never have pork.
(c) That the portions are not big enough
(d) That they always burn the stew

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

5. How old is Norman when he first meets Jim?
(a) Seventeen
(b) Twenty-seven
(c) Thirty
(d) In his early twenties

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Norman try to avoid altercations with Jim?

2. What does Jim invite Norman to do?

3. What does Norman not suggest to Jim?

4. What does Norman fear about an encounter with Jim?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jim never eat at breakfast?

4. What is Jim's wintertime job?

5. What is the content of Jim's final letter to Norman?

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

7. What does Jim do while the prostitutes are working?

8. How does Norman perceive Jim?

9. Why does Norman make this decision?

10. What does Norman fear about Jim?

(see the answer keys)

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