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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: if only, Chapters 18-19 and Part V: never any knowing, Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles's friends from home earn money by smuggling what substance in from the Yucatan before selling it?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Opium.
(d) Psychedelic mushrooms.

2. David relates that Charles died on the eve of what day?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Charles's third sobriety anniversary.
(c) David's fortieth birthday.
(d) Charles's fortieth birthday.

3. Illicit methamphetamine labs are said to have emerged in San Francisco in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1969.

4. What is the title of the article David writes for the New York Times Magazine?
(a) My Addicted Son.
(b) My Personal Peril.
(c) A Love Letter to My Little Boy.
(d) A Measure of Grief.

5. When Nic calls David after missing curfew and disappearing for a while, where is he?
(a) On the Golden Gate Bridge.
(b) In the Berkeley library.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) In an alley behind a bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1948, legal methamphetamines were used by 5% of what country's 16-25-year-olds?

2. When David asks the wireless operator to trace the location of Nic's cell phone, what is NOT a city she reports to him?

3. In what area of the United States is St. Helena Hospital located?

4. From what country was the chemist who first synthesized amphetamine?

5. Whom does David call when he wants someone to check on Nic after he stops returning phone calls?

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