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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Emily does not emerge from the advertising agency, what happens next?
(a) Grady admits that Emily had left their marriage that morning.
(b) Grady goes in to get Emily.
(c) Walter goes in to get Emily.
(d) Crabtree calls Emily on her cell phone.

2. In what genre did Albert Vetch create short stories throughout his life?
(a) Horror.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Romance.
(d) Science fiction.

3. When Grady sees James lurking around outside in Chapter 6, James is holding what object in his hand?
(a) A gun.
(b) A bouquet of flowers.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A knife.

4. How many years before narrative present did Grady and Emily begin their courtship?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. In what type of Hollywood deaths is one particular character interested throughout the narrative?
(a) Overdoses.
(b) Murders.
(c) Drownings.
(d) Suicides.

6. What was the topic of the first college class Crabtree and Grady ever took together?
(a) The short story.
(b) The novel.
(c) The poem.
(d) The memoir.

7. On which street does Grady live in a house originally built in 1915?
(a) Randall.
(b) Denniston.
(c) Madrona.
(d) Elm.

8. What term does Grady use when he refers to the malady that had afflicted Albert Vetch?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Midnight disease.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Schizophrenia.

9. What is the name of the publishing house waiting for Grady to finish writing his latest novel?
(a) Barbazon.
(b) Medusa.
(c) Bartizan.
(d) Papillon.

10. Who was the first character to ever suggest that Crabtree may one day be Grady's literary editor?
(a) Grady's grandmother.
(b) Grady.
(c) The professor.
(d) Crabtree.

11. What was the source of the sounds that used to emerge from Albert Vetch's room at the hotel?
(a) A blowtorch.
(b) A rocking chair.
(c) A fan.
(d) A stereo.

12. What type of event is at the center of Chapter 6?
(a) A bar mitzvah.
(b) A party.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A funeral.

13. Grady finds by the end of Chapter 10 that he does not have the heart to tell which character about Doctor Dee's death?
(a) James.
(b) Emily.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) Sara.

14. In Chapter 5, Grady goes to Sara's house and she informs him of what fact?
(a) She is getting divorced.
(b) She wants to leave her husband.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is being stalked.

15. What method does Grady habitually utilize when he writes a novel?
(a) A typewriter.
(b) A laptop.
(c) A desktop computer.
(d) A pen and paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose suitcase does Grady find alcohol and pills in Chapter 9?

2. As Hannah and Grady are loading James into a car so he can be driven home, he opens his eyes and calls out for what item?

3. After a brief conflict in the parking lot at Carl Franklin's Hi-Hat, Grady goes back in and is invited to dance by which character?

4. Grady tells the reader in Chapter 2 that after he left home at a young age, he did not return for how many years?

5. When Grady leaves the lecture hall featured in Chapter 10, he runs into which character?

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