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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lou concerned about along with children in Chapter 8?
(a) His job.
(b) Money.
(c) Divorce.
(d) His weight.

2. What is the name of Barry's militant non-conformist wife?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Jessie.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Marcia.

3. Who laughs at the end of Chapter 9 after Jessie stabs Lou with a fork?
(a) Dorothy.
(b) Rita.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Marcia.

4. Against what country did Swede join the marines for a final assault over in the book?
(a) Japan.
(b) North Korea.
(c) Germany.
(d) North Vietnam.

5. What does Marcia say that without transgression there is none of in Chapter 8?
(a) Love.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Kindness.

6. What does Swede describe Dawn and Bill as at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Strangers.
(b) Rogues.
(c) Predators.
(d) Aliens.

7. What does the narrator say Dawn did as a way to distance herself from the stigma of being a beauty queen?
(a) Dressed down.
(b) Stayed at home.
(c) Didn't work.
(d) Raise cattle.

8. How far had Merry had been working from Swede's glove factory when Rita contacts him in Chapter 5?
(a) Ten minutes.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) One hour.

9. What city does Dawn go to for her facelift?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Geneva.

10. What does the person Swede calls after he has seen Merry in Chapter 6 tell him to do in regard to Merry?
(a) Forget her.
(b) Send her to a psychiatrist.
(c) Turn her over to the FBI.
(d) Go back and get her.

11. What part of Rimrock does Swede live in?
(a) West Rimrock.
(b) New Rimrock.
(c) East Rimrock.
(d) Old Rimrock.

12. Who let Merry stay with them in New York after the bombing?
(a) The Gurliks.
(b) The Dwyers.
(c) The Salzmans.
(d) The Umanoffs.

13. What does Swede learn that Merry has become in Chapter 6?
(a) A Hindu.
(b) A Baptist.
(c) A Buddhist.
(d) A Jain.

14. What story does Swede feel he relates to when he moves to the
(a) Daniel Boone.
(b) Huck Finn.
(c) Johnny Appleseed.
(d) Paul Bunyan.

15. What does Lou do to Swede for hanging onto the factory in Newark?
(a) Criticizes him.
(b) Encourages him.
(c) Shames him.
(d) Helps him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bill take Swede's comment that Bill would be happy living in his house in Chapter 9?

2. Who does the narrator say is the one who helped Merry become herself?

3. What movie do Lou and Swede discuss in Chapter 8?

4. What does Swede know that Dawn must put on after the stain of Merry's bomb?

5. What kind of business of Dawn's had Swede sold a year after Merry's disappearance?

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