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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were Cicero and Jacson romantically involved?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Twenty years.

2. Who is Lazarus's wife?
(a) Maria.
(b) Henrietta.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Gina.

3. Where does Ed go to eat in the story When We All Get to Heaven?
(a) The Mission Clock.
(b) The Tally Bar.
(c) The Carnegie Deli.
(d) The Starlight Diner.

4. Where was Howard Hughes buying casinos in the 1960s?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) New York.
(d) Las Vegas.

5. What dish did Howard Hughes Senior particularly like?
(a) Home-made ice cream.
(b) Beans cooked with ham hocks.
(c) Friend steak.
(d) Tomato soup.

6. Where does the music star say Ed is really from?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

7. Who is Cicero's uncle?
(a) Michael Hatter.
(b) Dax Cross.
(c) John Frank.
(d) Winston Hughes.

8. Where was Inez Cross Pickett born?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) California.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Illinois.

9. Who is working at the front desk in the police station when Lazarus gets there?
(a) Ben.
(b) Frank.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Alfreda.

10. Why does Lazarus go to the grocery store to begin with the day he sees J.C. there?
(a) He ran out of Tums.
(b) He needed ice cream.
(c) He needed clean drinking water.
(d) He needed cheese.

11. Who is Lazarus's exasperating aunt?
(a) Minnie Razor.
(b) Fannie Wren Hunt.
(c) Hortensia Barden Parker Compton.
(d) Francis Bedlin.

12. Where is Ed actually from?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) North Carolina.

13. Where did Howard Hughes's father build a big mansion?
(a) In Baltimore.
(b) In Houston.
(c) In New York City.
(d) In Chicago.

14. Who is assigned to make the deal to buy the hotel for Howard Hughes?
(a) Noah Dietrich.
(b) Henry Hallows.
(c) Inez Cross Pickett.
(d) Michael Raye.

15. Who did Ed used to know who was so good at guitar he sometimes played for money?
(a) Mr. Moses Roscoe.
(b) Mr. Henry Frank.
(c) Mr. John Jingle.
(d) Mr. Benny Jetter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Inez Cross Pickett die?

2. Which band does the music star say Ed is really from?

3. How does Howard Hughes's mother die?

4. Where does the narrator of The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks eventually open his own restaurant?

5. Who is the music star's handler, who the music star tries to trick into thinking he knows Ed?

(see the answer keys)

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