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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Bee's father?
(a) Malcolm Hunt.
(b) Jack Gladney.
(c) Howard Waldrop.
(d) Murray Siskind.

2. Who helps Jack find a German teacher?
(a) Babette.
(b) Wilder.
(c) Heinrich.
(d) Murray.

3. Which of the children confronts Babette directly about the medication?
(a) Steffie.
(b) Heinrich.
(c) Wilder.
(d) Denise.

4. Where does Murray live?
(a) With his children.
(b) In a hotel.
(c) In a student dormitory.
(d) In a rooming house.

5. What is his opponent in jail for?
(a) Money laundering.
(b) Grand theft auto.
(c) Murder.
(d) Postal fraud.

6. According to Heinrich, what is the result when plastic furniture burns?
(a) Peroxide.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) Dylar.
(d) Ammonia.

7. When Steffie answers the phone, who wants to come over?
(a) The Singers.
(b) The Silberts.
(c) The Sittenfelds.
(d) The Stovers.

8. Which pop-culture icon is Murray most interested in studying?
(a) Britney Spears.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Elvis Presley.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

9. What is happening to Heinrich's hair?
(a) It is turning gray.
(b) It is becoming curly.
(c) It is growing long.
(d) It is receding.

10. Where does Heinrich's mother live?
(a) In an ashram.
(b) In a convent.
(c) In a castle.
(d) In New Hampshire.

11. What dominates in the film Jack shows?
(a) American news reports from World War 2.
(b) Nature montages of the Black Forest.
(c) Crowd scenes of Nazi Germany.
(d) Army footage.

12. What is the word the narrator uses to describe Babette's size?
(a) Broad.
(b) Ample.
(c) Brawny.
(d) Waifish.

13. Where does the German teacher live?
(a) In an ashram.
(b) In the dormitory.
(c) In the asylum.
(d) In the rooming house.

14. Who is Tweedy's husband?
(a) Howard Waldrop.
(b) Jack Gladney.
(c) Murray Siskind.
(d) Malcolm Hunt.

15. How does Jack describe his German teacher's complexion?
(a) Wan.
(b) Albino.
(c) Tawny.
(d) Flesh-colored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says that she was thinking seriously of eating "yogurt and wheat germ" at this first lunch depicted in the novel?

2. Where was Mr. Treadwell found?

3. Where did the psychic live?

4. What was Eric Massingale's former profession?

5. What kind of car plays a big role in the first chapters of the book, as parents drop off the college students?

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