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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 the final gift the narrator gives the beggar in "Christmas Means Giving"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His liver.
(c) His VCR.
(d) His sons.

2. What is all over the beggar's beard when he shows up at the narrator's door in "Christmas Means Giving"?
(a) Jam.
(b) Mud.
(c) Blood.
(d) Dressing.

3. What body part does Doug Cottingham donate first?
(a) A spleen.
(b) An eye.
(c) A kidney.
(d) A lung.

4. The Cottinghams donate Eileen to _________.
(a) Science.
(b) A pirate crew.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A needy family.

5. Thaddeus Bristol compares the performance at Scottsfield Elementary School to what?
(a) Stale bread.
(b) Pumpkin pie.
(c) Overstuffed turkey.
(d) Mushy stuffing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age group are the performers in "A Christmas Carol"?

2. What does Jim Timothy call the people he is addressing in the church?

3. Jim Timothy's interns only open letters from where?

4. What does Jim Timothy use as an example of waiting for a good offer?

5. What is the name of the show at Scottsfield Elementary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has been the trajectory of Jim Timothy's career?

2. What does Thaddeus Bristol conclude about parental encouragement?

3. How does the giving contest become gruesome in "Christmas Means Giving"?

4. What do the Cottingham's and then narrator give to the beggar starting on the next Thanksgiving?

5. How does "Christmas Means Giving" end?

6. What does Jim Timothy offer the members of the congregation if they help him?

7. What is the great choice that Jim Timothy suggests the people of Jasper's Breath have in front of them?

8. What is Thaddeus Bristol's complaint about the performance at Sacred Heart Elementary?

9. What does the narrator discover happens to his sons after he gives them to the beggar?

10. What happens when the Cottingham family move into next door to the narrator in "Christmas Means Giving"?

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