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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Story 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Salesman marital status?
(a) Divorced.
(b) Married.
(c) Single.
(d) Widow.

2. What type of vehicle does the narrator of Story 2 drive?
(a) A Jeep.
(b) A Prius.
(c) A Volkswagon.
(d) A Mustang.

3. Every time Bill thinks of his first bullet wound, what happens to him?
(a) He screams.
(b) He has a recurring dream.
(c) He cries.
(d) He faints.

4. How is the narrator receiving money in Story 3?
(a) By stealing a dead man's social security checks.
(b) By working as a construction worker.
(c) By prostituting himself.
(d) By being a drug dealer.

5. When Bill looks back at his life, he says he sees _______.
(a) A dark hole.
(b) Wrecked cars.
(c) Flowery meadows.
(d) A pretty rainbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator and his girlfriend's drug of choice in Story 5?

2. According to the narrator in Story 2, who sold him a gun?

3. Story 9 opens with the narrator saying he was after a ________ who was always in the company of a boy.

4. What games do the patients of Beverly Homes play to keep them involved with the details of their lives before they slip away into senility beyond anybody's reach?

5. How does the narrator's "new companion" communicate in Story 2?

(see the answer key)

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