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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: never any knowing, Chapters 22-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David Sheff states in the introduction that he uses what literary device sparingly within the memoir?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Metaphor.

2. When Nic finally calls his father after a long period of being missing, he admits to being in the midst of a relapse on what two drugs?
(a) Codeine and valium.
(b) Methamphetamine and heroin.
(c) Heroin and cocaine.
(d) Methamphetamine and prescription opiates.

3. David asserts that he and Vicki are "among the first generation of" (19) what kind of parents?
(a) Secular.
(b) Self-conscious.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Parochial.

4. Nic's teachers report that Nic is bright and usually engaged, but that once in a while, he seems what?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Spacey.
(c) Forgetful.
(d) Lonely.

5. To whom do the newspapers belong that at first cause Karen and David to believe that Nic has once again broken into their home?
(a) Nic.
(b) A family friend.
(c) Karen's sister.
(d) Jasper.

Short Answer Questions

1. When David is at his wits' end with no news about Nic, who says they have been contacted by Nic?

2. According to David, approximately what percentage of all second marriages end in divorce?

3. What is the title of the article David writes for the New York Times Magazine?

4. What book does Nic pick up reading to his younger siblings where he had left off more than two years prior?

5. Whose suicide note serves as a source of Part I's epigraph?

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