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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 40-Epilog.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Richard's profession?
(a) Writer.
(b) Sculptor.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Publisher.

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

3. Richard explains what he knows to Dickie by using _________________ metaphors.
(a) arithmetic.
(b) travel.
(c) medical.
(d) food.

4. The cracked dry earth where Dickie lives symbolizes _______________________.
(a) lack of creativity.
(b) the desert of Richard's childhood.
(c) financial restrictions.
(d) open space for ideas.

5. Over what body of water does Richard paraglide?
(a) Mississippi River.
(b) Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Puget Sound.
(d) Lake Erie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 42, Richard puts together the pieces of _______________________.

2. In Chapter 21, Richard tells Leslie about a memory he has from what grade in school?

3. Richard states that Dickie is a part of himself _______________________.

4. Richard's brothers are Roy and __________________.

5. Leslie is afraid that Richard is going to teach Dickie to be _________________.

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