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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Strange Man respond to the Main Character's attempts at small talk during their phone call in Chapter 22?
(a) He tells him to stop wasting his time.
(b) With silence.
(c) He urges him to get to the point.
(d) He is uncharacteristically friendly.

2. What does the Strange Man give to the Business Partner?
(a) An incriminating photograph.
(b) A pen.
(c) A list of demands.
(d) A business card.

3. When does the Main Character say that the Girlfriend is most likely to display her ears?
(a) When she wants attention.
(b) When there are children around.
(c) During sex.
(d) When there are animals around.

4. What does the Main Character dream about in the limo on the way to the Boss's house?
(a) The Girlfriends ears sitting on the seat next to him.
(b) The Girlfriend's ears on the Strange Man's head.
(c) A hammer and a talking sheep.
(d) Pliers and a talking cow.

5. Where do the Sixteen Steps that title Chapter 2 actually lead?
(a) To the Main Character's apartment.
(b) To the laundry room.
(c) To the roof of the building.
(d) To a wall with no door.

6. Whom does the Main Character live with?
(a) No one.
(b) His father.
(c) An unseen roommate.
(d) His cat.

7. Whom does the Strange Man say he represents?
(a) The name on the business card.
(b) A friend.
(c) The Main Character's father.
(d) The person in the photograph.

8. Where does the Main Character go to buy supplies after speaking to the Strange Man?
(a) A clothing store.
(b) An outdoors supplier.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) A pharmacy.

9. What does the Strange Man do when the Main Character refuses to tell him what he wants to know in Chapter 17?
(a) Tears up a check.
(b) Shows him a different photograph.
(c) Throws a lighter at him.
(d) Threatens him.

10. What does the Rat send to the Main Character along with his first letter?
(a) A lighter.
(b) An addressed and stamped envelope.
(c) A novel.
(d) An advertisement and a stamp.

11. What do the Main Character and his business partner first discuss in Chapter 7?
(a) The Business Partner's disease.
(b) A new client that the Main Character wants to work with.
(c) The Business Partner's church.
(d) The Main Character's divorce.

12. How old was the Main Character when he knew the person who dies in Chapter 1?
(a) 21.
(b) From age 18 to the present.
(c) From age five to the present.
(d) 17.

13. What prediction does the Girlfriend make in Chapter 6 that comes true?
(a) That the Main Character will get a phone call.
(b) That the Main Character will have a visitor.
(c) That the Main Character will receive a package.
(d) That the Main Character will get violently ill.

14. What does the Limo Driver give to the Main Character?
(a) A bible.
(b) God's phone number.
(c) A map.
(d) His phone number.

15. Who tells the Main Character about a sheep in Chapter 6?
(a) His ex-wife.
(b) A messenger.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) The business partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the Limo Driver tell the Main Character gave him the important phone number?

2. Whom does the Strange Man demand to speak to?

3. What does the Rat tell the Main Character in his first letter?

4. What does the Business Partner believe about the business?

5. Who is at the Main Character's apartment when he arrives home in Chapter 2?

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