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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. How many windows in the apartment building across the street are lit up?
(a) None.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) A score.
2. What type of exclamation does Tom Benecke utter once he feels the yellow sheet of paper under his fingers?
(a) A bark.
(b) A moan.
(c) A groan.
(d) A giggle.
3. Tom Benecke opens his eyes very wide once he feels "a sudden rush of" (38) what?
(a) Giddiness.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Wind.
(d) Regret.
4. What happens when Tom Benecke strikes the glass with the "heel of his hand" (48)?
(a) A crack forms in the glass.
(b) He drops the yellow sheet of paper.
(c) The window shatters.
(d) His arm rebounds from the glass.
5. What adjective is used to describe the "edging" (41) of Tom Benecke's window?
(a) Solid.
(b) Puttyless.
(c) Dilapidated.
(d) Grooved.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of Tom Benecke's body parts first encounters "emptiness" (40) while sliding along the brick?
2. Just before feeling his hand touching the yellow sheet of paper, Tom Benecke is taking what action?
3. What does Tom Benecke believe will happen if his mental "barrier" (37) fails?
4. What type of coin does Tom Benecke use in an attempt to break his living room window?
5. Tom Benecke is described as being "past awareness" (30) of pain in what part of his body?
Short Essay Questions
1. What element of the movement inside Tom Benecke's apartment shocks him?
2. What is Finney's purpose for including the detail that Clare Benecke cannot open the window?
3. What objects does Tom Benecke use in an attempt to break the window?
4. What is the impetus for Tom Benecke's realization that he is still holding the yellow sheet of paper between his teeth?
5. What is the significance of Tom Benecke's act of spitting out the object that is in his mouth?
6. What is the setting of the story and how does it affect the story's mood?
7. In what manner does Tom Benecke find the yellow sheet of paper?
8. How is the motif of the carnivalesque apparent within Tom Benecke's image of what he will do when he regains access to his apartment?
9. Describe the way in which canine-involved language is used within the story and for what purpose.
10. Imagining what scene causes Tom Benecke to lose his feelings of calm as he looks through his apartment window?
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