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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 weapon has the captor used on the hostage in the secret room?
(a) A gun.
(b) A razor.
(c) A spear.
(d) A bat.
2. With what does Cavendish cut the hero?
(a) A pocket knife.
(b) A shard of glass.
(c) A piece of broken mirror.
(d) A razor.
3. What symbol represents the Joker at the end of the novel?
(a) A moon.
(b) An exclamation point.
(c) A star.
(d) A laughing smile.
4. Who released the prisoners from the asylum?
(a) Dr. Destiny.
(b) Cavendish.
(c) Ruth.
(d) The Joker.
5. What item does the hero request from Ruth before he tries to leave the asylum?
(a) Dr. Destiny's bottle of pills.
(b) The Joker's tarot cards.
(c) Two Face's coin.
(d) A clean razor blade.
Short Answer Questions
1. What item or weapon is used to destroy the asylum?
2. To whom does the book belong that the hero is shown in the secret room?
3. What do the words around the hero's image describe at the end of the novel?
4. For whom does Amadeus name the asylum?
5. What does Amadeus feel when he electrocutes his victim?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the blood trail lead and what does the hero realize at the end of it?
2. How are the challenges facing the hero as he walks through the asylum parallel to Arkham's own challenges as simultaneously reflected in his journal?
3. Why does Arkham write his journal? What does the location where he stores it say about him?
4. Discuss the hero's meeting with Maxie Zeus.
5. What idea does the hero contrive to allow the inmates to decide whether he lives or dies?
6. Explain why Cavendish gets involved in crossing the lives of Arkham and the hero.
7. Name one way in which the moon is symbolic of the Joker.
8. Explain how a statue helps save the hero's life.
9. How does a memory from decades earlier described in Arkham's journal relate to the hero?
10. What is ironic about Cavendish calling the hero a "mommy's boy"?
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