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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 seems to cause a rift between the suspect and his roommate?
(a) The roommate begins to feel used.
(b) The roommate brings another man into the bedroom.
(c) The roommate sees the suspect stealing something.
(d) The roommate learns about the suspect's criminal background.

2. How does Theresa explain her limp to Gary?
(a) It's just a habit she has.
(b) It remains from her polio.
(c) She stumbled and her ankle is swollen.
(d) It's an ingrown toenail.

3. How does the professor change over the summer?
(a) He loses interest in teaching and starts smoking marijuana.
(b) He says he hates his wife.
(c) He asks to teach more classes at the college.
(d) He becomes rude to Theresa and doesn't want her around.

4. What does Theresa ask Gary to do after they are intimate?
(a) To slam the door on his way out.
(b) To leave.
(c) To go back to the bar with her.
(d) To stay with her.

5. Why does the suspect leave his home and head to New York?
(a) To stay with a relative there.
(b) To see a Broadway show.
(c) To get a job in theater.
(d) To stay with a friend there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the crime for which the suspect arrested?

2. Where do police find the property that made the suspect's reason for not leaving the roommate somewhat confusing?

3. Where is the office of the English professor's wife located?

4. Who stops visiting Theresa in the hospital?

5. Why does Gary get so tired while in Theresa's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Theresa's English professor.

2. How does Theresa learn her relationship with Martin will end upon graduation and how does she react to the news?

3. Why does Gary tell police he wanted Theresa to shut up?

4. Compare Theresa and Brigid's childhood characteristics.

5. Discuss Theresa's relationship with Katherine as a child.

6. What helps Theresa out of her post-college graduation depression and why?

7. Discuss the evolution of one coffee break with Martin and Theresa.

8. What is Gary's reaction when police ask him about the contents of his jacket?

9. Discuss the essay Martin challenges Theresa to write and the one she actually submits as her final project.

10. What, other than a ride, does Gary pick up while hitchhiking. Why is it important?

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