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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. In Chapter 12, Crabtree insists on reviewing the manuscript of whose latest novel?
(a) Grady.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Walter.
(d) James.

2. Which object in an award-winning film is discussed by three characters in Chapter 13?
(a) A snowflake.
(b) A cockatoo.
(c) A rosebud.
(d) A sled.

3. When Grady leaves the lecture hall featured in Chapter 10, he runs into which character?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Sara.
(c) Crabtree.
(d) Walter.

4. What position does Walter Gaskell hold at the college where Grady teaches?
(a) English department head.
(b) President.
(c) Environmental science department head.
(d) Dean.

5. How did Grady first meet Hannah?
(a) She delivered his mail.
(b) She took a class with him.
(c) He got her name from Crabtree.
(d) He saw her at the bowling alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grady relates to the guest speaker's ideas about what types of figures?

2. When Emily does not emerge from the advertising agency, what happens next?

3. In Chapter 3, Grady is driving the car while which character sits in the backseat with Crabtree?

4. What term does Grady apply to Albert Vetch early in Chapter 1?

5. What was the topic of the first college class Crabtree and Grady ever took together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grady see as the main difficulty he is having with completing his fourth novel Wonder Boys?

2. For what reason is Grady still in shock that Sara ever became involved with him?

3. For how long has Grady been working on the novel Wonder Boys by the time the novel opens in Chapter 1?

4. In what way does the motif of dreams emerge within Chapter 14 and for what purpose?

5. How does Grady feel about Hannah and how does act on these feelings?

6. Who is Q?

7. How does Doctor Dee end up dead by the end of Chapter 8?

8. How does Grady react, inwardly and outwardly, to the news Sara delivers in Chapter 5?

9. What does Grady mean when he repeatedly refers to the "midnight disease" (23) in the novel?

10. How do Q's ideas included in his lecture in Chapter 10 echo those in Grady's philosophy about the "midnight disease" (23)?

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