Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine does the narrator of "Parade" appear in?
(a) The National Inquirer
(b) People
(c) Cosmopolitan
(d) Vogue

2. In "We Get Along", what does the narrator's mother do the night after her husband's funeral?
(a) She obsessively cleans the apartment.
(b) She smashes the windows of her car.
(c) She goes on a drinking binge.
(d) She plays golf.

3. Why does the narrator begin cleaning bathrooms in "Firestone"?
(a) Customers complained of their filth
(b) To teach himself humility
(c) He is incapable of pumping gas
(d) Carlton orders him to do so

4. Why does the narrator of "Firestone" refuse to have his eyes operated on?
(a) He is frightened of hospitals and doctors.
(b) He believes his declining eyesight gives him an edge in life.
(c) He believes his declining eyesight is the will of God.
(d) He cannot afford to have the surgeries done.

5. What does Don do to Mrs. Toni when she ridicules his dreams of stardom in "Don's Story"?
(a) He stabs her with a switchblade.
(b) He asks the bus driver to pull over so she can leave the bus.
(c) He pokes her with a bathroom key.
(d) He ignores her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "Parade" think people who have never met him feel about him?

2. What is the reason for the narrator's appearance on the Oprah show in "Parade"?

3. Where did Don of "Don's Story" live before moving to Los Angeles?

4. Who does the narrator's mother become close with after her husband's death in "We Get Along"?

5. How do Annette and Randy spend their time together according to the narrator of "The Last You'll Hear From Me"?

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