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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: You Have to be Cruel to be Kind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He translates their words from another language.
(b) He reverses their words.
(c) He deciphers the code in which people speak.
(d) He reads their lips.

2. Where does the narrator believe food comes from?
(a) The garbage can.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) The women at the supermarket.
(d) The old people.

3. How does the narrator believe people are treated at crisis centers?
(a) Mothers would arrive kicking and screaming but leave rested and happier.
(b) People are asked questions about how satisfied they are with their care.
(c) Tod Friendly would heal them by operating on them.
(d) Pimps would heal women with their fists.

4. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?
(a) Using the bathroom.
(b) Male/female conversations.
(c) Sex.
(d) Eating.

5. Who is the president of the United States at the beginning of the book?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the narrator control?

2. What sport does Tod Friendly take up?

3. How does the narrator feel about watching medical practices?

4. What does Tod Friendly do when he shaves?

5. What is Tod Friendly's car perched against when the narrator sees the policeman put Tod in his car?

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