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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. What is Raleigh reading when the story begins?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) Restroom wall graffiti.
(c) A fortune cookie.
(d) A business magazine.

2. Whose trunk is Raleigh trying to retrieve at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Teeny's.
(b) Tiny's.
(c) Tina's.
(d) Tammy's.

3. What does Raleigh receive from Earley in a brown paper bag?
(a) Lottery tickets.
(b) Car keys and a deed to a house.
(c) $10,000 and some whiskey.
(d) Cat food.

4. What is Raleigh's job?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Janitor.
(c) Insurance salesman.
(d) Retail clerk.

5. Who is the janitor in Raleigh's office building?
(a) Bill Kaiser.
(b) Bill Pierson.
(c) Bill Jimson.
(d) Bill Jenkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raleigh take from Mingo before entering the library in Part 1, Chapter 7?

2. What is the name of the building where Raleigh works?

3. Who is skinny-dipping in the community pool in Part 1, Chapter 3?

4. Whose slacks get ripped in Part 1, Chapter 3?

5. Who has the family Bible that Raleigh needs to collect?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people of Thermopylae think Earley has done, and why?

2. What is the importance of a cassette tape in Handling Sin?

3. Who and what does Raleigh's father want him to gather to bring to him in another state?

4. How do Raleigh and Mingo encounter a van full of hoodlums, and what happens to the money Raleigh's dad gave him?

5. How does Raleigh feel about Aura's TV appearance when he sees her on television during his visit with Flossie, and why?

6. What is Raleigh's perspective of Pee Wee Jimson? What item representing Pee Wee does Raleigh's father want him to collect?

7. Explain Raleigh's message of doom in Chapter 1.

8. What is Raleigh's relationship with Mingo, as the story begins in Chapter 1?

9. What is the misunderstanding that Raleigh's janitor has in Chapter 5?

10. What note does Raleigh find in Chapter 5, and what is the truth of the situation surrounding that note?

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