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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has he been counting in Wales?
(a) People.
(b) Stones.
(c) Picnic tables.
(d) Seagulls.

2. What befalls Toe Rag and the green-eyed monster?
(a) The turn into fire hydrants.
(b) The end up on Saturn.
(c) They are eaten by the Guilt God.
(d) The kill each other.

3. What creatures crouch beneath the foul sky outside the gates of Valhalla?
(a) Demons.
(b) Gargoyles.
(c) Gorgons.
(d) Dragons.

4. Who attends Odin at Woodshead as he prepares to return to Asgard?
(a) Willow.
(b) Wallow.
(c) Hollow.
(d) Hillow.

5. What happens to a god that makes the god know he is dead?
(a) A duck lays a golden egg in his right hand.
(b) He ceases to bleed star plasma.
(c) A white tree grows out of his head.
(d) He can't see himself in the mirror.

6. What song does Neil suddenly erupt into during Kate's conversation with Thor after his bath?
(a) "Rheinfahrt".
(b) Paganini's 24th "Caprice".
(c) "Emperor".
(d) "Tosca".

7. What does the old man that befriends Dirk at King's Cross Station utter often?
(a) "Naught!".
(b) "Delicious!".
(c) "Oh, ah".
(d) "Humph".

8. What does Tsuliwaensis say in terms of the number of immortal gods that are left?
(a) There is only one.
(b) There are fewer that a bushel.
(c) There are so many more gnats.
(d) They are crowding the skies.

9. What does Thor tell Odin he could not steal from his son?
(a) His love.
(b) His dreams.
(c) His life.
(d) His power.

10. What is the lawyer who Dirk hits with his car wearing?
(a) An Italian suit.
(b) A Member's Only windbreaker.
(c) Overalls.
(d) A yellow Polo.

11. What is the name of the wife of the lawyer that Dirk hits with his car?
(a) Cynthia.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Beth.
(d) Sally.

12. What part of London does Dirk say is grim concrete monoliths?
(a) Victoria Station.
(b) Pentonville Road.
(c) Primrose Road.
(d) Lambeth.

13. What does Dirk think he will not be able to handle in terms of the eagle in his house if he tries to go upstairs to get a cigarette?
(a) The thought of the eagle's anger.
(b) His overwhelming queasiness.
(c) The memory of his accident.
(d) The sheer ornithology involved.

14. How does Dirk think of the eagle's beak?
(a) As a major piece of armory.
(b) As a needly poker.
(c) As a meat eater.
(d) As a small consideration.

15. Who does Dirk see in the hospital when he wakes up?
(a) Annie Greene.
(b) Kate.
(c) Odin.
(d) Sally Mills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kate describe Thor's eyes?

2. Which neighbor of Kate's has recently died of a heart attack?

3. What has been left at the hospital for Kate?

4. How does the author describe Odin's hands in the bed at Woodshead?

5. What does the "tramp" ask Dirk for outside his house?

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