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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 lack does Silas feel deeply as he walks home in the dark from Larry's house the only time he goes there during his adolescence?
(a) A friend.
(b) A girlfriend.
(c) A father.
(d) A job.

2. The vines and weeds encroaching upon the cabin in the woods are said to resemble what type of creature?
(a) Worms.
(b) Snake.
(c) Snails.
(d) Eels.

3. What name does Carl call Larry during the contest over the rifle?
(a) Pansy.
(b) Milquetoast.
(c) Weakling.
(d) Pantywaist.

4. Who calls Silas in Chapter 4 to tell him that Larry is alive?
(a) Angie.
(b) Miss Voncille.
(c) French.
(d) Alice.

5. In what year does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 2018.
(b) 1992.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outcome of Larry's encounter with the masked man?

2. What object does Larry come home to find "waiting" in his house in the first sentence of the novel?

3. What kind of children are referenced within the novel's epigraph?

4. Before his death, M and M had been known to local authorities as what type of criminal?

5. To whom had Larry sold some of his land in the past, according to documents Silas finds in Larry's house?

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