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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reverses their words.
(b) He translates their words from another language.
(c) He deciphers the code in which people speak.
(d) He reads their lips.

2. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) The Korean War.

3. What can the narrator control?
(a) Nothing.
(b) What Tod Friendly says.
(c) What Tod Friendly eats.
(d) Where Tod Friendly's eyes go.

4. When Hamilton de Souza puts together the pieces of a torn picture, who does the narrator think he recognizes in the photo?
(a) Himself.
(b) His father.
(c) His child.
(d) His wife.

5. What does the narrator describe as an "atrocity-producing" situation?
(a) JFK's hero's welcome in Dallas.
(b) The possibility of nuclear war.
(c) The city.
(d) The hospital.

6. What kind of women does John Young prefer?
(a) Women with children.
(b) Women with husbands.
(c) Women with diseases.
(d) Women who smoke and drink.

7. What does Tod Friendly do to get a new name?
(a) He speaks with someone at the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(b) He gives a man a lot of money in his new apartment.
(c) He gets demoted at the hospital.
(d) He goes to a basement apartment where a man gives him money.

8. What term does the narrator coin to describe the act of eating?
(a) "Feasting."
(b) "Celebration of food."
(c) "Vomitorium."
(d) "Going to the restaurant."

9. How does the narrator feel at the beginning of the book?
(a) Strong and young.
(b) Old and full of fear.
(c) He has an ankle pain.
(d) Completely paralyzed.

10. Where does John Young land when he reaches Europe?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Salerno.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) London.

11. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds Irene's love letters?
(a) In the fire.
(b) In the drawer.
(c) In the trash.
(d) In the mail.

12. How often does "the Agent" visit Hamilton de Souza/John Young?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Once every other month.
(c) Every week.
(d) Twice a month.

13. Where does Tod Friendly work after (in the narrator's experience) he is demoted?
(a) Cafeteria duty.
(b) Guard duty.
(c) Garbage detail.
(d) Real estate.

14. When does John Young sail for Europe?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1917.

15. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?
(a) Irene.
(b) Father Duryea.
(c) Herta
(d) Odilo Unverdorben's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator believe people are treated at crisis centers?

2. Where does the narrator get his mail from?

3. What kind of sense of humor does the narrator believe John Young has?

4. What is Tod Friendly's job?

5. Where would John Young have his amorous encounters with women?

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