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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does the Detective bring to Flan and Ouisa in this section?
(a) He is transferring off the case
(b) Elizabeth will press charges
(c) Paul has been captured
(d) Sidney Poitier has called him

2. How does Paul describe the imagination in this section?
(a) Your 4 AM voice
(b) Your child's voice
(c) Your ever-badgering voice
(d) Your sunset voice

3. Where does Doug go to school?
(a) Dartmouth
(b) Cornell
(c) Columbia
(d) Harvard

4. Which family is the first that Paul asks Trent about in this section?
(a) Fine
(b) Larkin
(c) Kittredge
(d) Conway

5. Where does Paul proposition Rick for sex?
(a) In a carriage
(b) On the subway
(c) At the resturant
(d) At Rick's apartment

6. From what state have Rick and Elizabeth recently moved?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Oklahoma
(c) Iowa
(d) Utah

7. At the end of their first meeting with their children, Flan protests to Tess that she is not a part of a conspiracy but what?
(a) A family
(b) A secret
(c) An understanding
(d) A relationship

8. What is Paul drinking when Dr. Fine confronts him at the brownstone?
(a) Port
(b) Brandy
(c) Cognac
(d) Scotch

9. According to Donald Barthelme, what is the art form of the twentieth century?
(a) Collage
(b) Cubism
(c) Found object
(d) Abstract expressionism

10. To what country does Tess say she wants to travel in this section?
(a) Chile
(b) Laos
(c) Angola
(d) Afghanistan

11. Who else's death do Larkin and Kitty witness the week they see Rick's?
(a) Paul's
(b) Larkin's mother's
(c) A cab driver's
(d) A homeless man's

12. What mystery writer does Flan invoke as the parents try to figure out what they have in common?
(a) Patricia Highsmith
(b) Agatha Christie
(c) Raymond Chandler
(d) Dashiell Hammett

13. Which of the following items is not among those Paul stole from Trent when he left?
(a) His printer
(b) His sport jacket
(c) His skis
(d) His watch

14. Which of the assembled children in this section takes exception for what he perceives as an unspoken accusation of drug use?
(a) Doug
(b) Tess
(c) Ben
(d) Woody

15. Which notorious public figure does Tess invoke to describe what her parents are asking her to do?
(a) McCarthy
(b) Stalin
(c) Franco
(d) Goebells

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second excerpt from This Life that the parents read, what does Poitier warn his readers against doing regarding their children?

2. Which chic New York eatery does Paul "treat" Rick to in this section?

3. What is the result of the vote taken by the parents to pursue the Paul inquiry?

4. How many high school friends does Tess estimate were into drugs, gangs, and homosexuality?

5. According to Woody in this section, his parents bough him the pink shirt when he outgrew his other shirts because of what?

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