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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 unusual friend does Tristram make in Lyon?
(a) A dove.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A pigeon.

2. Who is called to tend Tristram's wound in Volume 5?
(a) Dr. Slop.
(b) Yorick.
(c) The midwife.
(d) Mrs. Shandy.

3. Where does Tristram find his travel notes?
(a) In his back pocket.
(b) Wadded up in the street.
(c) In the donkey's feed sack.
(d) Crumpled up under a lady's hat.

4. Why does Toby spend a few nights at the Widow Wadham's house?
(a) She needs manly work done in the house.
(b) The construction of his house is incomplete.
(c) She hosts a large party.
(d) His house floods.

5. Who is buried in the tomb of the two lovers?
(a) Cleopatra and Mark Antony.
(b) Amandus and Amanda.
(c) Edward VIII and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tristram travel to Paris?

2. In Volume 5, why does Mrs. Shandy eavesdrop on her husband?

3. What concern does Widow Wadham express about Toby Shandy in Volume 8?

4. Who feels guilty about removing the lead from the window?

5. What is Johnathan's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unusual friend does Tristram make in Lyon?

2. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

3. How is Tristram injured at the age of five?

4. Why does Trim take responsibility for Tristram's injury in Volume 5?

5. Why do Toby and Trim temporarily move in with Widow Wadham?

6. Why does Walter Shandy write Toby a letter in Volume 8?

7. Why does Tristram's mother eavesdrop on Walter and Toby's conversation in Volume 5?

8. How does Toby become Billy Le Fever's guardian?

9. What might Tristram mean when he describes romance as, "It is with love as with cuck-oldom"?

10. What irony exists in Walter Shandy's attempt to write a child-rearing book?

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