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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. Where does Walter offer to take Kate?
(a) Out to dinner.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To a Mardi Gras ball.
(d) To a show at the theater.

2. What does John think about movies?
(a) Hates when others do not appreciate movies.
(b) Wishes he could direct movies.
(c) He is obsessed with movies.
(d) He thinks that they are amazing, but get the endings wrong.

3. What does John conceal from Sharon?
(a) That he loves her.
(b) That he has a girlfiend.
(c) That he is stalking her.
(d) The novel he is reading.

4. What is John's uncle's name?
(a) Uncle Jimmy.
(b) Uncle Jacob.
(c) Uncle James.
(d) Uncle Jules.

5. Why does John frequently go to the movies?
(a) John directs movies and needs creativity.
(b) His girlfriend loves movies.
(c) He very much enoys the movies.
(d) He goes to escape life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John go into the office early at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What is Walter too busy with to attend to Kate?

3. What time does John wake up?

4. When does Kate think people are "real" with one another?

5. What does Aunt Emily want for John?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kate reveal to John about her happiest day?

2. Does John have anything in common with his mother?

3. Who is John excited to see and why?

4. Why is Lonnie fasting?

5. What does Sharon try to establish about the trip?

6. What does Kate decide to do about her therapist?

7. What is John searching for as the novel begins?

8. What is John nervous about on the car ride to the Golf Coast?

9. Where does John ask Sharon to go with him?

10. What occurs on the ride to the Gulf Coast?

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