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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aimée recount in a letter?
(a) Her depression that she has to return to Kansas.
(b) Her engagement to Dennis.
(c) Her desire to become the best mortician around.
(d) Her excitement that Mr. Joyboy asks her to marry him.

2. What does Mr. Joyboy ask Aimée?
(a) If her fiancee has a sister with red hair.
(b) If her fiancee is an Englishman.
(c) If her fiancee works at the studio.
(d) If her fiancee is a professor.

3. Where does Dennis go from the church?
(a) Lake Island.
(b) Work.
(c) The studio.
(d) Home.

4. What does Barlow find difficult to believe about the funeral home's structure?
(a) That it's three-dimensional.
(b) That it's considered tasteful.
(c) That it's considered serene.
(d) That it's a funeral home.

5. Of what is Mr. Slump tired?
(a) His elderly father.
(b) Writing a column.
(c) His elderly mother.
(d) Getting letters from Aimée.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dennis place on the benches in the church?

2. What has Dennis not yet done?

3. Who is on the other side of the door as Dennis is about to enter a room?

4. What is being piped through the speakers in the funeral home?

5. What is one thing said to be on the building of the funeral home?

(see the answer key)

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