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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dennis handle finding Sir Francis?
(a) He throws up.
(b) He is not greatly disturbed.
(c) He runs out of the house yelling.
(d) He laughs because Sir Francis has a tux on.

2. What is being piped through the speakers in the funeral home?
(a) "Amazing Grace."
(b) "Our Father."
(c) "Hindu Love-song."
(d) A musical rendition of the 23rd psalm.

3. What does Dennis send to Sir Ambrose?
(a) A picture of Sir Francis being knighted.
(b) A picture of Sir Francis with his illegitimate child.
(c) A book written by Sir Francis and another man.
(d) The article Dennis finds in the sock drawer.

4. What does a porter announce?
(a) That the bodies of a woman and child have arrived.
(b) That the body of another Britishman has arrived.
(c) That the bodies of twins have arrived.
(d) That Sir Francis turns out to be indigent.

5. Why does one man say Sir Francis is fired?
(a) Because his grandson works as a bagger at a grocery store.
(b) Because his daughter is a known prostitute among the actors.
(c) Because Dennis takes a job at a pet cemetery.
(d) Because his son was arrested for arson.

6. What does Dennis hear in the room where he is led?
(a) An eerie scratching noise.
(b) A recorded nightingale song.
(c) Someone sobbing.
(d) Someone laughing hysterically.

7. What do the various zones on the grounds in the funeral home represent?
(a) The varying costs of burial.
(b) Where famous versus unknown people are buried.
(c) The separation of race and nationality.
(d) The cremated versus those whose bodies are buried.

8. When will the most important studio figures visit Sir Francis?
(a) Never.
(b) In the evening after work.
(c) They've been coming through all day.
(d) The day of the service.

9. Who does Dennis tell that he is writing a poem?
(a) Sir Ambrose.
(b) Mr. Schultz.
(c) Aimée.
(d) Mr. Joyboy.

10. How is Mr. Joyboy's work as an embalmer considered?
(a) Good.
(b) Acceptable.
(c) Outstanding.
(d) Mediocre.

11. Who is not pleased about Dennis' responsibilities concerning Sir Francis?
(a) Sir Francis' ex-wife.
(b) Sir Ambrose.
(c) Mr. Schultz.
(d) Miss Rozwell.

12. What has Barlow done recently?
(a) Divorced.
(b) Traveled back to England.
(c) Quit his job as a screenwriter.
(d) Married.

13. What poet does Dennis quote?
(a) Shelly.
(b) Blake.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Keats.

14. What is Sir Ambrose's profession?
(a) Acting.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Stockbroker.
(d) Lawyer.

15. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?
(a) A slice of the good life.
(b) A little nightmare.
(c) A look at the rotten core of life.
(d) A cloudy view of reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sir Ambrose ask of Dennis?

2. What does the receptionist ask Dennis that makes him visualize Sir Francis when Dennis finds him?

3. Through what does Dennis have to pass in order to reach the reception area in the mortuary?

4. What does Dennis feel about Sir Francis' corpse?

5. How does Sir Francis have to get to work?

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