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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard encourages Dickie to defy convention and __________________.
(a) never get married.
(b) make a lot of money.
(c) just be.
(d) be an artist.

2. In Chapter 13, Dickie hands Richard a memory of ____________________.
(a) a water tower.
(b) a birthday party.
(c) Christmas.
(d) dancing.

3. What does Richard respond when Dickie asks Richard's age?
(a) Numbers are not important.
(b) Older than Methuselah.
(c) Older than dirt.
(d) Old enough to know better.

4. When Richard returns home in Chapter 11, he feels as if he is acting ____________________.
(a) angrily.
(b) petulantly.
(c) childishly.
(d) coyly.

5. Richard admits that he has a tendency to ___________________ when things get difficult.
(a) strategize.
(b) cry.
(c) attack.
(d) run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cracked dry earth where Dickie lives symbolizes _______________________.

2. Richard states that people come into his life at strange times to _______________________.

3. What does Richard want to tell Dickie in Chapter 6?

4. What does Richard see from the air that the adult brain says it could not reasonably survive?

5. Where is the angel at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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