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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 word does Greg seem to like to use?
(a) Horrid.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Awful.
(d) Grotesque.

2. How many copies of Van's book are sold in the first year?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Six thousand.
(c) Six.
(d) Six hundred.

3. Where does Van track down Rack?
(a) Rack is at his children's school when Van finds him.
(b) Van tracks down Rack at a hotel, where he is with a lover.
(c) Rack is in the hospital where Van is sent.
(d) Van finds Rack at his music shop.

4. How long does Van tell Demon his affair with Ada has been going on?
(a) Six years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Nine years.

5. What is the best Franco-Estonian restaurant in Manhattan Major?
(a) Myotis.
(b) Ursus.
(c) Eutamias.
(d) Lupus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Van keep Ada's communications for fifty years?

2. Who chooses the girls at Villa Venus?

3. How does Ada introduce her husband to Van?

4. How does Lucette say she feels when she runs into Van?

5. What is Van's earliest memory?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Percy de Prey die?

2. What does Van write about in his unsent letter to Ada?

3. What excuse does Van make up to have time alone with Ada?

4. What metaphor does Van use for trying to understand time?

5. What is Van's opinion of acting?

6. What tragedy happened at the Villa Venus in Souvenir, Missouri?

7. What were the reviews of Van's first book like?

8. How does Van characterize to Greg his relationship with Ada?

9. How does Van gain the post of Rattner Chair of Philosophy at University of Kingston?

10. What is Cordula's conversation like?

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