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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 can Hank tell from from the lights in his hiding place in the ceiling?
(a) Where the English department is meeting.
(b) That the dean is meeting with the press in his office.
(c) That the Humanities department is meeting three rooms down.
(d) That there is a meeting about staff vacation time next door.

2. What situation at the end of the Epilogue makes Hank laugh at how academics can be?
(a) They have no idea how to handle money.
(b) Not very practical - they cannot get out of a room.
(c) Very generous - everyone comes to help him.
(d) Very narrow - they only know a lot about one thing.

3. In the Epilogue, Hank is on leave. What is this called for a professor?
(a) An emeritus appointment.
(b) A mini-vacation.
(c) A professional development opportunity.
(d) A sabbatical.

4. What method did Hank's father find worked for him, and he could finally resume lecturing?
(a) If he started outside the room and looked up at the back wall.
(b) He recorded his lectures and wrote comments on the board.
(c) He wore dark glasses to class.
(d) He stood at the back of the room so no one could see him.

5. What does Hank learn as the meeting below him comes to an end?
(a) That none of the professors will be getting vacation time.
(b) That he has been recalled as chairman by two-thirds of the vote.
(c) That he has been transferred to the Humanities department.
(d) That the dean has taken a job in Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Epilogue, what does Hank say about his wife?

2. What part of this student's anatomy did Hank's father coo to as his knees buckled and he had to be helped down from the lectern?

3. What does Hank's mother make obvious to Hank after he almost runs her over?

4. What is the person who called after the head of campus security, calling Hank about?

5. In the Epilogue, where do Hank and his wife like to sit and watch the neighborhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the status of Hank and Lily's daughters? What are they doing?

2. The morning after Hank and Tony end up in the same place, what does Hank find when he heads home? What does he do instead? What does he find out?

3. How did Devereaux Sr. attempt to cope with his problem?

4. In the Epilogue, what does Hank tell the readers he is now doing?

5. Where do the professors gather for a party for Tony? Why are they having a party for him?

6. When Hank gets to his office the morning the goose is found hanging in the tree,, what emotional state is his secretary in? Why is this?

7. What deal did Hank's father accept after the "dog incident" that Hank related in his first article? According to his son, what made this a very attractive offer for William Henry Devereaux, Sr.?

8. What are Hank's Prologues to Book One and Two about, and where are they published? What is his mother's reaction to his writing?

9. After Hank's calls from Lou and Teddy, Hank heads to campus but stops at the diner first. Who does he meet there and what does this individual tell Hank?

10. What happens after Tony and Hank leave the restaurant? Where do they both end up?

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