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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator want from Amanda?
(a) He wants her to trip and fall on the runway.
(b) He wants her to go back home with him.
(c) He wants an explanation for her abandonment.
(d) He wants her to give back her engagement ring.

2. In fifty years, how many retractions has the magazine printed?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) None.

3. How does the narrator feel in his meeting with Clara?
(a) Afraid: he does not want Clara doing him bodily harm.
(b) Horrified: he is completely blindsided by their conversation.
(c) Giddy: he hates this job and wants to quit.
(d) Detached: like a samurai, she cannot hurt him if he has already resolved to die.

4. Where in the mail room was the animal found?
(a) In the mail carrier's satchel.
(b) In one of the boxes.
(c) In a cabinet door that was ajar.
(d) In a bag of rejected manuscripts.

5. Where do the narrator and Megan go to eat?
(a) They go to the Lions Head Pub.
(b) They go to Megan's apartment.
(c) They go to Odeon.
(d) They go to the narrator's apartment.

6. What did the narrator do on his first day of school?
(a) He was bullied by another boy and broke a finger.
(b) He colored all his book with marker.
(c) He hid in the woods so he would miss the bus.
(d) He ran out of the house to the bus in excitement.

7. What note does the narrator leave for Megan?
(a) He leaves her his phone number.
(b) He leaves her an apology.
(c) He leaves her an angry tirade.
(d) He leaves her a love letter.

8. What does the narrator drop in the bathroom?
(a) The paper with Vicky's phone number.
(b) His wallet and credit cards.
(c) His glasses.
(d) The vial of cocaine Tad gave him.

9. Where does Tad claim to have seen Odysseus before?
(a) He has seen him driving a limo.
(b) He has seen him working as a dancer in a club.
(c) He has seen him on a television infomercial.
(d) He has seen him working for a Dial-a-Hunk service.

10. How does Michael get into the narrator's apartment?
(a) He forces his way through the door.
(b) He has brought a police escort.
(c) He pleads with the narrator to let him in.
(d) He claims he is a parcel service.

11. What does the narrator give to Megan?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) The keys to his apartment.
(c) A picture of Amanda.
(d) A snort of cocaine.

12. Where does the narrator decide to go?
(a) The office.
(b) The Lion's Head Pub.
(c) Home.
(d) Odeon.

13. What plans with Megan has the narrator forgotten?
(a) He has forgotten their dinner reservation.
(b) He has forgotten their movie night.
(c) He has forgotten their elopement.
(d) He has forgotten their lunch date.

14. How does the narrator clean out his desk?
(a) He and Megan separate everything into piles.
(b) He dumps everything into wastebaskets.
(c) He takes everything into Clara's office and dumps it.
(d) He enlists the help of a moving company.

15. Where does the narrator wake up in the morning?
(a) He wakes up on the floor of Megan's bathroom.
(b) He wakes up in his father's house.
(c) He wakes up in his own apartment.
(d) He wakes up on Megan's couch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers the narrator a reference when he returns to the office?

2. Where does the narrator sit in the audience?

3. What animal does Megan say was found in the mail room?

4. Who does the narrator's mother see just before she dies?

5. What work does Michael offer the narrator?

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