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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. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds love letters?
(a) In the old house.
(b) In the trash.
(c) In the mail box.
(d) At his job.

2. How does the narrator feel about doctors?
(a) He recognizes them from Auschwitz.
(b) He pretends not to know them.
(c) He loves them.
(d) He hates them.

3. How does Tod Friendly walk in the door to his house after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He walks in sideways.
(b) He walks in backwards.
(c) He has to climb over some rubble.
(d) He limps because of the pain in his ankle.

4. Who is the narrator?
(a) The doctor who was Tod Friendly's mentor.
(b) A voice in Tod Friendly's head.
(c) A character from Tod Friendly's past.
(d) One of the doctors surrounding Tod Friendly at the beginning of the book.

5. What does the narrator see upon waking at the beginning of the book?
(a) Main Street, USA.
(b) Corpses all around.
(c) Doctors all around.
(d) His house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tod Friendly's job?

2. What term does the narrator coin to describe the act of eating?

3. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?

4. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?

5. When does the narrator feel that he and Tod Friendly have things in common?

(see the answer key)

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