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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 does Howie consider to be an honor to use in the corporate bathroom?

2. How many trees does Howie notice in the plaza?

3. What does Howie do with the last ten minutes of his lunch break?

4. What invention does Howie praise lavishly while visiting the corporate bathroom?

5. Howie views visiting the corporate men's room as a _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Howie does Howie think his corporation flaunts their status?

2. What are Howie's reflections on the overall safety of escalators?

3. What does Howie notice about tunes whistled in the men's room?

4. In what way does Howie consider life to be like footnotes?

5. What does Howie consider to be the quintessential question about lunch hours?

6. Why does Howie need to purchase earplugs every week?

7. What is Howie's dilemma in the men's bathroom?

8. What activity does Howie describe that both he and L take part in when alone in an elevator?

9. What causes Howie to consider the intentions of the inventors of the escalator?

10. What observations does Howie make about his Revere saucepan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the paradox of Howie the man-child and the greater truth that existed within that ambiguity.

Essay Topic 2

Do you agree with Howie's premise that conceiving of the important can be accomplished by means of conceiving of the trivial. Is there a deeper profundity to his trivial thoughts?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the trivialities, interconnections with other people and thoughts outside of its main subject, tangents, abrupt thoughts that must not be lost and so on that the author illustrates in the footnotes? What greater truth is contained in these?

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