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

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

3. What drink does the narrator order at the bar?
(a) Vodka on ice.
(b) A margarita.
(c) Whiskey and Coca-Cola.
(d) Gin and tonic.

4. What are the bouncers dressed up as?
(a) Nubian slaves.
(b) Roman soldiers.
(c) Aladdin's genie.
(d) Native American medicine men.

5. What is the narrator's punishment for failing in his duty?
(a) He is put in the mail room.
(b) He is fired.
(c) He is placed in Fiction.
(d) He is demoted.

6. How does the narrator's mother describe the pain she is in?
(a) She likens it to a broken arm.
(b) She likens it to having a sunburn.
(c) She likens it to the pain she felt during the narrator's birth.
(d) She likens it to going to the dentist.

7. What relationship of Megan's surprises the narrator?
(a) She lives with her mother.
(b) She has a daughter.
(c) She has a son.
(d) She is actually married.

8. What work does Michael offer the narrator?
(a) A position at a paper company he is running.
(b) A temporary job taking calls for a customer service center.
(c) A spot on the police force in their home town, where Michael works.
(d) A few weeks of work on an old carriage house he is fixing up.

9. With whom does the narrator make a lunch date for the next day?
(a) Vicky Hollins.
(b) Clara Tillinghast.
(c) Megan Avery.
(d) The Druid.

10. What does the narrator do when he sees his visitor?
(a) He runs up to the person and give them a hug.
(b) He faints on the spot.
(c) He runs away and ducks into a train.
(d) He pushes them away from his door.

11. Where does the narrator sit in the audience?
(a) He sits in the center of the first row.
(b) He sits in the center of the middle row.
(c) He sits on the aisle of the back row.
(d) He cannot sit, it is standing room only.

12. What phrase does Wade want on the narrator's epitaph?
(a) Facts wait for no man.
(b) As a matter of fact.
(c) He didn't face facts.
(d) The facts of life.

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

14. What does the narrator discover in an envelope in his desk?
(a) An old check he forgot to cash.
(b) His wedding ring.
(c) Bolivian powder.
(d) Amanda's picture.

15. Who does he call the minute he wakes up?
(a) Michael.
(b) Megan Avery.
(c) Clara Tillinghast.
(d) Vicky Hollins.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom has the narrator obtained the invitation?

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

3. What does the narrator smell on his way home, through his nose-bleed?

4. How does the narrator feel in his meeting with Clara?

5. Who does the narrator receive a phone call from after finishing the last of the drugs as Michael sleeps?

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