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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. Why does the character Paul Frost, leave Kansas?
(a) To avoid being drafted.
(b) To see other parts of the country.
(c) To work in a mental hospital.
(d) To move in with his girlfriend.

2. In the story, what is said to be the only one book that offers a suitable religion for businessmen?
(a) Koran.
(b) Bible.
(c) Torah.
(d) Writings.

3. Why does Ginny protect her lucky innocent nature?
(a) To keep others from knowing her.
(b) To help her find her own identity.
(c) To heal herself.
(d) To protect Paul as well.

4. What does the sane man in the parable realize when he is given the vision of clarity?
(a) That the human souls are shadowed.
(b) That help comes from friends.
(c) That his friends hate him.
(d) That there is no love.

5. When Ginny apologizes for Paul to the narrator what does she accuse the narrator of doing?
(a) Waiting too long to approach them.
(b) Provoking Paul.
(c) Being unwilling to forgive.
(d) Giving up his own faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say that everything has?

2. How far away is the bobby station?

3. What does Charles ask Johnson that Plinkett witnessed?

4. Why does Mr. G. block unemployment?

5. About what does the woman who sits next to the Fosters complain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

2. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

3. What is Harold Green caught doing that angers people in the community?

4. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

5. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

6. What does the narrator say that he is enough of a realist to accept?

7. What does Ruth want to advise Harold to do and what does she do instead?

8. What makes Eunice wonder about the hotel's breakfast calls?

9. What does Harold's wife, Ruth, demand he do and if he doesn't follow through, what does she say will happen?

10. What happens when Charles interrupts his attorney's summation?

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