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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What store is closed for the night when Dirk looks for cigarettes?

2. What is in the lip preserver Kate puts in Thor's bath?

3. What was the subject of the "big talk" Odin used to endure at Valhalla?

4. According to Odin, very little attention was given to _____ at Valhalla.

5. What does Kate call Thor when he initially refuses her help with his injuries?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Thor find Odin's contract and what happens when he tries to present the evidence in Valhalla?

2. Why is Dirk's impression of mail he gets from American Express paradoxical?

3. When Dirk searches in vain for cigarettes, how does he feel when he has tried every place he can think of and can't get a pack?

4. What does Sally Mills say about Dirk's appearance at the hospital?

5. What does the Saint Pancras Station look like?

6. What does the hammer that Thor pulls out to fight the eagle with look like?

7. What happens to Dirk when he jumps out of his house?

8. How is Dirk's denial about his smoking habit shown in Chapter 25?

9. What does Dirk think of the subconscious mind?

10. What is Dirk's impression of the eagle when he sees it in the street?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Dirk's relationship with the electronic I Ching calculator. Why does he buy it? What keeps happening with it? What does it tell him?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the meaning of the title, "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul".

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the anthropomorphism of Guilt in the book. How is this brought to fruition at the end?

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