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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dick Boulton?
(a) One of the men who comes to work for Nick's father
(b) The head of the local plumbers union
(c) A school board member
(d) The mayor of the town

2. What does Peduzzi try to get before leaving the young American man?
(a) An advance for fishing tomorrow
(b) A job reference
(c) A bottle of wine
(d) A tip

3. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Paint his house
(b) Plant some new trees
(c) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property
(d) Till a new garden

4. Nick's recovery in a hospital mirrors whose life?
(a) Fitzgerald's
(b) Faulkner's
(c) Capote's
(d) Hemingway's

5. Who is Ad Francis?
(a) A Wall Street executive
(b) An author
(c) A minister
(d) A former prizefighter

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?

2. What does the young wife carry through the streets of town?

3. Who sleeps in the big mediaeval bed?

4. What does Nick call his friend, Rinaldi, in the Memoir?

5. What does Mr. Elliot pay to have published?

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