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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Victor and Ida hear on the radio?
(a) Their favorite song.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) A coded message that means a terrorist attack.
(d) An announcement about their car.

2. Where does Denny tell Victor he will find the answers he seeks?
(a) That Paige Marshall knows.
(b) In the immigration records at the library.
(c) He won't find them. His mother has forgotten everything.
(d) His mother's diary.

3. Where does the narrator go to visit his mother?
(a) Her place of employment.
(b) Her house.
(c) A mental hospital.
(d) A restaurant.

4. What did Ida Mancini tell Victor when he asked about his grandparents?
(a) "They don't speak English."
(b) "They don't care about him."
(c) "They don't need to know about him."
(d) "They're dead."

5. What does the narrator say is the only thing to remain constant in his life as he moved from foster home to foster home?
(a) His mother.
(b) Love.
(c) The internet.
(d) His friends.

6. Which number best represents the number of names in Victor's "Hero Book?"
(a) 300.
(b) 50.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

7. Who wrote the advertisement that Denny shows Victor?
(a) Paige Marshall.
(b) Victor's mother.
(c) Denny's parents.
(d) Denny's sponsor.

8. What does Dr. Marshall tell Victor is true if he believes in the Holy Trinity?
(a) That he will be saved.
(b) That he is his own father.
(c) That the bible does not mention it.
(d) That church is a waste of time.

9. Why does Denny say he is collecting the objects he collects?
(a) He needs something to do.
(b) For each day he is "sober."
(c) He loves rocks.
(d) He wants to build a church.

10. What does Victor tell Denny his mother has?
(a) A big secret.
(b) Increased appetite.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Restored memory.

11. In what state did Ida Mancini go to medical school?
(a) California.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Idaho.
(d) New York.

12. According to Paige Marshall, where did Ida Mancini get pregnant?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) The United States.
(d) Italy.

13. When Victor and Denny visit the strip club, what is Denny doing?
(a) Examining the women as a doctor would.
(b) Trying to pick up women.
(c) Sketching the dancers.
(d) Casually watching.

14. What does the narrator recreate at his job?
(a) 18th century America.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) The Gettysburg Addres.
(d) The Civil War.

15. According to Paige Marshall, what was stolen from under the priest's bed?
(a) A stash of wine.
(b) A nude magazine.
(c) An ancint foreskin.
(d) Holy water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Marshall tell Victor she can do?

2. Where is the narrator's friend when he is first introduced?

3. Why does the narrator go to the church?

4. What do the people that save Victor's life send him?

5. What is the narrator's name?

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