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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 is Dora doing when the police arrive?
(a) Barricading her room.
(b) Shooting a gun.
(c) Beating her lover.
(d) Talking to her mother on the phone.

2. What does Gertie Straub pretend she is doing when she comes home drunk one night?
(a) Hoovering.
(b) Singing.
(c) Washing clothes.
(d) Dusting.

3. In which film did Barrymore play a Russian monk?
(a) The Idiot.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) Rasputin and the Empress.
(d) The Devils.

4. What Joseph Conrad character does Thurber reference in this section?
(a) Kurtz.
(b) Lord Jim.
(c) Nostromo.
(d) Charles Marlow.

5. What does Cave Canem mean?
(a) Beware of the dog.
(b) Don't feed the animal.
(c) Don't touch the animal.
(d) This dog bites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thurber's main problem during gym?

2. What kind of dog is the dog the garage workers dislike?

3. What is the name of Vashti's fiance?

4. How does Edda Millmoss destroy father's dinner?

5. Who does Thurber's instructor shiver all over like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Muggs deal with mice?

2. Why does Muggs stop entering the house?

3. How does riding the roller coaster affect Thurber?

4. Who is Mrs. Robertson?

5. What does Thurber say about hypnotism?

6. How does Thurber feed the dog?

7. What happens when Thurber returns to the ship?

8. How does Thurber cope with the military drills?

9. Summarize chapter eight.

10. Why does Thurber claim that even Lord Jim found it difficult to run away?

(see the answer keys)

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