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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John decide to undertake on his bus ride to Elysian Fields?
(a) Getting ice cream with his family.
(b) The possibility of a search for meaning.
(c) Getting a new girlfriend.
(d) Going for pasta for dinner.

2. Who does John run into after lunch (at the library)?
(a) His Aunt Emily.
(b) His cousin's wife, Nell Lovell.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother, Lonnie.

3. What do Kate and John have in common?
(a) Their outlook on life.
(b) Their hair color.
(c) Their birth cities.
(d) Their middle nanes.

4. Where does Walter offer to take Kate?
(a) To a Mardi Gras ball.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To a show at the theater.
(d) Out to dinner.

5. What does Kate doubt?
(a) That she will marry Walter.
(b) That her mother will leave her personal life alone.
(c) That Mardi Gars will be fun.
(d) That John will find a woman to marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Emily want for John?

2. Why does John like Mrs. Schexnaydre?

3. Who is John obsessed with at the beginning of Chapter2?

4. Why is it interesting that Sharon and John keep the books they are reading a secret from one another?

5. Who did John like to be when he was a child?

(see the answer key)

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