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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the dentist who treats Stencil?
(a) Schoenmaker.
(b) Strangelove.
(c) Dudley Eigenvalue.
(d) Winsome.

2. Who does Benny meet on the subway in New York?
(a) A hungry child.
(b) A waif.
(c) Tolito, Jose and Kook.
(d) A crazy hobo.

3. Who tells V. about Vheissu?
(a) Captain Hugh.
(b) Profane.
(c) Sir Wren.
(d) Mildred.

4. What does Benny give Paola at the bus station?
(a) Money.
(b) A hug.
(c) A love letter.
(d) Rachel's address.

5. Who is Alice?
(a) The daughter of the ambassador.
(b) The missing child of Sir Wren.
(c) A young girl who Maxwell once loved that Victoria reminds him of.
(d) A British opera singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the members of the Whole Sick Crew?

2. What does Paola offer that Fina does not for Profane?

3. Who is Esther's lover?

4. What does Heroic Love require according to the record executive's wife?

5. Who did Stencil meet that talked to him about the sewers and the rat Veronica?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Herbert Stencil's purpose?

2. What is Vheissu?

3. Who are the two Englishmen at the cafe in Egypt that a waiter overhears talking about Victoria Wren?

4. How does Dr. Schoenmaker view Esther in Chapter 4?

5. Why does Esther fall in love with her plastic surgeon?

6. What does the reader learn about V. in Chapter 3?

7. Why does Stencil go to the dentist and what does he discover?

8. Describe the Sailor's Grave.

9. What is the urban legend that Benny Profane actually does?

10. What is Benny's new job at the end of Chapter 1 and how does he get it?

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