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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elwood Dowd's initial reaction upon seeing the parcel Myrtle Mae Simmons left?
(a) He is excited.
(b) He is saddened.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He is terrified.

2. How many bars were searched looking for Elwood Dowd?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

3. Where does Elwood Dowd tell Betty Chumley about his location?
(a) That he was at Chumley's Rest.
(b) That he was at Charlie's Place.
(c) That he was at home.
(d) That he was where he was.

4. Veta Simmons informs Dr. William Chumley that she knows where Elwood Dowd is. Where is he?
(a) He's at the sanitarium.
(b) He's waiting at the bus stop.
(c) He's in the mansion's basement.
(d) He's at Charlie's Place.

5. In this scene, Dr. William Chumley and Judge Gaffney visit whom upstairs in the Dowd mansion?
(a) Mrs. Greenawalt.
(b) Elwood Dowd.
(c) Myrtle Mae Simmons.
(d) Veta Simmons.

6. Where does Elwood Dowd put the contents he finds in Myrtle Mae Simmons' flat parcel?
(a) On the back of the front door to the mansion.
(b) On the mantle, over the picture of his mother.
(c) In the hallway, near the hall tree.
(d) In the garbage.

7. Where does Elwood Dowd say Dr. William Chumley found him?
(a) The post office.
(b) The local library.
(c) The Dowd mansion.
(d) Charlie's Place.

8. What is Dr. William Chumley's emotional state when he enters the sanitarium?
(a) He is crying.
(b) He is babbling incoherently.
(c) He is nervous.
(d) He is punch drunk.

9. What does Dr. William Chumley believe?
(a) He is beginning to understand Elwood Dowd.
(b) He is being followed.
(c) He is able to see Harvey
(d) All responses are correct.

10. What kind of advice does Dr. Lyman Sanderson give Ruth Kelly?
(a) Packing advice.
(b) Dating advice.
(c) Cooking advice.
(d) Travel tips.

11. As the scene opens, who is talking on the phone?
(a) Dr. William Chumley.
(b) Dr. Lyman Sanderson.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Ruth Kelly.

12. Who enters, looking disheveled and shaken?
(a) Dr. William Chumley.
(b) Myrtle Mae Simmons.
(c) Veta Simmons.
(d) Elwood Dowd.

13. What happens to the front door at the end of this scene?
(a) It disappears.
(b) It unlocks itself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It opens and closes by itself.

14. What does Elwood Dowd tell Ruth Kelly about Dr. William Chumley's whereabouts?
(a) He is on a train to Pittsburgh.
(b) He is at the Dowd mansion.
(c) He doesn't know where Dr. William Chumley is.
(d) He is at Charlie's Place.

15. Where does this scene take place?
(a) The police station.
(b) The Dowd library.
(c) The sanitarium.
(d) A field near town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. William Chumley assure Judge Gaffney of to hopefully avoid a lawsuit?

2. After several drinks, with whom did Dr. William Chumley get into an argument over who should pay?

3. Who seems most concerned about the character that's gone missing at the outset of the scene?

4. What is Ruth Kelly's reaction to Elwood Dowd's story about Dr. William Chumley?

5. What does Harvey look like, according to this scene?

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