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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times has the narrator been at the facility?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. What is the first thing the narrator and J.P. talk about when they meet?
(a) How they got to the facility.
(b) The location of the facility.
(c) The weather.
(d) What they ate for breakfast.

3. What is Tiny's profession?
(a) Electrician.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Truck driver.
(d) Chimney sweep.

4. How many children does the narrator's girlfriend have?
(a) One son.
(b) A son and a daughter.
(c) One daughter.
(d) Two sons.

5. What story is Tiny telling when the breakfast incident occurs?
(a) About a drinking bout.
(b) About meeting his wife.
(c) About hunting.
(d) About New Year's Eve.

6. What animal noise does Tiny make when he comes downstairs one morning?
(a) Barking.
(b) Meowing.
(c) Quacking.
(d) Mooing.

7. What kind of New Year's Eve cake is it?
(a) German chocolate.
(b) Chocolate with pink lettering.
(c) White with pink lettering.
(d) Marble.

8. How does the narrator pay for his stay at the facility?
(a) Cash.
(b) He arranges to be billed.
(c) Check.
(d) Credit card.

9. Whose car do the narrator and his girlfriend take to the facility?
(a) A rental car.
(b) The girlfriend's.
(c) The narrator's.
(d) A car borrowed from a friend.

10. In the narrator's memories, what is the landlord doing one morning?
(a) Painting the house.
(b) Mowing the lawn.
(c) Fixing a fence.
(d) Trimming a hedge.

11. What does the proprietor smoke?
(a) He doesn't smoke.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Pipe.
(d) Cigars.

12. How long were the narrator and his wife married?
(a) Three years.
(b) He doesn't say.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

13. In what part of the state does the story take place?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) Middle.
(d) South.

14. Where did J.P. grow up?
(a) On a farm.
(b) In a trailer park.
(c) Outside a big city.
(d) In a small town.

15. Who calls for an ambulance after Tiny's fall?
(a) An unnamed patient.
(b) J.P.
(c) The proprietor.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the proprietor suggest the narrator stay longer at the facility this time?

2. What does the narrator eat for Christmas dinner?

3. How does Tiny fall at the beginning of the story?

4. What name does the narrator's wife call him the last time they spoke?

5. What phrase does the narrator use for casually talking with someone?

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