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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boy rely on Dunstan for at parties?
(a) To keep the dullest guests occupied.
(b) To be the dullest guest.
(c) To speak intelligently about current events.
(d) To keep the guests happy.

2. In addition to caring for Mrs. Dempster, teaching, and being Boy's primary confidant, what publication is Dunstan doing a lot of writing for?
(a) Saints of the Bollandiana.
(b) Analecta Bollandiana.
(c) Jesuit publication of the Saints.
(d) Jesuit Analecta.

3. Dunstan's habit is to visit Mary Dempster and her aunt when?
(a) Every Saturday.
(b) Every other Saturday.
(c) Every other Sunday.
(d) Every Sunday.

4. Dunstan and his priest friend travel by train to what European city?
(a) Antwerp.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) Venice.

5. When does Mrs. Dempster die?
(a) A year after Boy returns from his war efforts.
(b) A year after Boy's second wedding.
(c) A year after Dunstan returns from Mexico.
(d) A year after Dunstan stops visiting her.

6. Boy makes a fortune during what time period because he specializes in providing bulky, comforting and cheap food?
(a) The 1940's.
(b) The 1910's.
(c) The Depression.
(d) World War II.

7. What is the date and location the narrator gives for the writing of the story?
(a) Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 1975.
(b) Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 1970.
(c) Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 1960.
(d) Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 1975.

8. When Dunstan finds the Bollandists, where does he find Padre Blazon?
(a) In a hospital in Vienna.
(b) In the Bollandist monastary.
(c) At a church in Lyon.
(d) In a resturaunt in Paris.

9. Liesl wants to incorporate a thought-reading act into the show called what?
(a) The Talking Head.
(b) The all-knowing crystal ball.
(c) The Brazen Head.
(d) The Amazing Great Head.

10. Boy's second wife believes she can get him appointed to what position?
(a) Advisor to the Crown.
(b) Cabinet Minister.
(c) Governor.
(d) Lieutenant-Governor.

11. Leola dies of what disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Plague.
(c) Pox.
(d) Flu.

12. Who tells David of his mother's death?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Percy.
(c) Boy.
(d) Dunstan.

13. Who introduces Eisengrim to Boy?
(a) Denyse.
(b) Liesl.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) Caroline.

14. Wettenhall lost all his money in what event?
(a) The stock market crash of 1929.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The investment market crash of 1934.
(d) The war.

15. When Leola is found in the bathtub, who is her note addressed to?
(a) Her children.
(b) Boy.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dunstan believe Eisengrim is in love with?

2. What is the name of the daughter of Boy Staunton's second wife?

3. What is the tour in Mexico supposed to do for the show?

4. When Dunstan visits Mary Dempster, after his return from Europe, what is she wearing each time he comes?

5. When Dunstan does not respond to Liesl's advances, what does Liesl beat him with?

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