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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. How does Tristram travel to Paris?
(a) By stagecoach.
(b) By boat.
(c) By mule.
(d) By train.

2. For what item is Tristram forced to pay in Lyon?
(a) A new shoe.
(b) A notebook.
(c) A suitcase.
(d) Another carriage.

3. What does Walter Shandy like to drink?
(a) Sherry.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Water.
(d) Port.

4. Where does Lieutenant Le Fever die?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the bowling green.
(c) In the village inn.
(d) On the battlefield.

5. Who does Walter want to have tutor Tristram?
(a) Billy Le Fever.
(b) Toby.
(c) Yorick.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concern does Tristram voice in Chapter 1 of Volume 7?

2. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

3. What is Johnathan's profession?

4. How old is Tristram when he is injured by a falling window sash?

5. Who needs to have an eye examined in Volume 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Shandy household react to the news of Bobby's death?

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

3. Describe the farcical nature of the story of the abbess and the novice.

4. What position does Toby recommend Billy Le Fever assume in the Shandy household?

5. What inconsistencies exist in Tristram's friendship with Eugenuis?

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

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

8. How does Walter Shandy react to Tristram's injury in Volume 5?

9. How does Toby discover his love for Widow Wadham?

10. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

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