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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military force is withdrawing from the city of Smyrna?
(a) The French army
(b) The Greek army
(c) The Russian navy
(d) The U.S. navy

2. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?
(a) The women with dead babies who will not relinquish them
(b) Children crying for milk
(c) Women vomiting in the streets
(d) Men begging for food

3. What fills the muddy roads leading out of the city?
(a) Tanks and other military vehicles
(b) Garbage from a garbage strike
(c) Greek citizens pulling carts with all their belongings
(d) Water from unrelenting rains

4. What do the Greek soldiers do to their mules after they break the front legs of the animals?
(a) Bludgeon them to death
(b) Force them to carry heavy loads
(c) Push them off the dock into shallow water
(d) Shoot them in the head

5. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?
(a) That he wants to remember this morning forever
(b) That he is homesick
(c) That he will never die
(d) That he does not want to leave

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dick Boulton?

2. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?

3. Who else is attempting to leave Smyrna?

4. What is Nick's father's profession?

5. What job did the narrator have in the war?

(see the answer key)

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