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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 does the person who speaks to the Main Character in the darkness in Chapter 38 tell him about the Rat?
(a) That the Rat is dead.
(b) That the Rat has killed the person who is speaking.
(c) That the Rat needs will need his help tomorrow.
(d) That the Rat is going to kill him.

2. What does the Girlfriend tell the Main Character that she has learned after their first day of research and hunting for the sheep?
(a) The government will not disclose their tracking data.
(b) Some local maps have blacked out portions.
(c) There are no maps of a certain area of this region.
(d) The government has stopped tracking sheep.

3. What best describes the Sheep Professor?
(a) Large frame, long white hair and stinky.
(b) Bald, short and timid.
(c) Slim with overgrown and graying hair.
(d) Meticulously dressed and formal.

4. During the naming discussion in Chapter 24, what object is mentioned as a thing that is not named?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Plants.
(c) Buses.
(d) Computers.

5. What vehicle is sent to pick up the cat?
(a) The Strange Man's sleek black sedan.
(b) The Boss's Limo.
(c) An animal transport bus.
(d) A dilapidated taxicab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character that the Rat is located?

2. Who is buried in the garage?

3. What does the Main Character find outside of the villa that indicates someone, other than the Rat, has been there?

4. Where does the couple first take a train to in Chapter 29?

5. Why does the caretaker admit that he will not take the Main Character and the Girlfriend any further up the mountain road?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from her powerful ears, is the Girlfriend a help or a hindrance to the Main Character?

2. How is isolation and alienation of the characters apparent in Chapters 25 and 26?

3. Describe the Dolphin Hotel.

4. How does the Main Character react to the Girlfriend's sudden disappearance?

5. Why is the Sheep able to control the Rat?

6. Do the Girlfriend's ears help the quest while staying at the Dolphin Hotel?

7. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

8. Explain how the Sheep Professor came to his current state of being.

9. How does the Sheep Professor's information help the Main Character on his quest?

10. Who is responsible for the Strange Man's death?

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