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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hamilton de Souza pay the old Spanish man?
(a) US dollars.
(b) German deutsch marks.
(c) Gold ingots.
(d) French francs.

3. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?
(a) Irene.
(b) Herta
(c) Odilo Unverdorben's mother.
(d) Father Duryea.

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

5. Where does the narrator think Herta's letters come from?
(a) The sprinkle rooms.
(b) The mail box.
(c) The fire.
(d) The trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator begin to feel that the world is going to start making sense very soon?

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

3. Where are the patients stacked neatly?

4. How do the other doctors feel about John Young?

5. What can the narrator control?

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