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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. The narrator described at the beginning of "Screwjack" that a crust of snow had formed on the porch since ____________.
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Dawn.

2. The narrator describes Mr. Screwjack by saying, "Like my beast and my ____, my perfect dream lover, like that ghost that I must forget."
(a) Mother.
(b) Enemy.
(c) Dolphin.
(d) Feline.

3. In what city was Thompson in "Death of a Poet"?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Green Bay.
(c) Denver.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. What did the narrator do just before throwing Mr. Screwjack into the cold?
(a) Punched him.
(b) Kicked him.
(c) Licked him.
(d) Kissed him.

5. Who was a friend of F. X. Leach in a 1992 Rolling Stone article by Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Clarence Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mr. Screwjack try to coax the narrator after dinner?

2. Who had "gone off to Real Estate School"?

3. The second narrator in "Screwjack" writes that after having been bitten, he "stared down at him very intently from a distance of" how many inches?

4. The people would come to collect Leach's debt by _____________.

5. How many years after Mr. Screwjack's disappearance did the narrator encounter him again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the second narrator do to Screwjack?

2. What did Duke write to the Lord in "Screwjack"?

3. What startling sight did the narrator find in the kitchen in "Death of a Poet"?

4. Describe the individual, F.X. Leach. What was his occupation? How did the narrator of "Death of a Poet" know him?

5. What was the significance of the bet in "Death of a Poet"?

6. What surprise news did Leach break on the narrator in "Death of a Poet"?

7. What did Screwjack do to the second narrator?

8. What was the critical and public reaction to the collection of stories in Screw-jack?

9. Who "wrote" the opening chapter of "Screwjack"? What exposition is revealed here?

10. What did Leach tell the narrator was the savior of his marriage in "Death of a Poet"?

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