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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Do You Care What Other People Think?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Richard mentions kids playing in a field and one of them asking Richard to name a particular bird. What kind of bird did the child tell Richard the bird was?
(a) A robin.
(b) A brown-throated thrush.
(c) A red-crested woodpecker.
(d) A Spencer's warbler.

2. What did Richard's mother teach him were the highest forms of understanding?
(a) Acceptance and faith.
(b) Understanding and love.
(c) Individuality and strength.
(d) Laughter and human compassion.

3. When Arlene was in the hospital in Albuquerque, why did she have a little charcoal broiler in her room?
(a) To make it more like home.
(b) To give to Richard as a gift.
(c) To keep it warm.
(d) To make steaks.

4. Richard's father told him that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called what?
(a) A neutron.
(b) A photon.
(c) A nucleus.
(d) A proton.

5. Richard mentions that a friend of his mother was trying to make a living during the Depression by doing what?
(a) Selling baked goods.
(b) Teaching dance.
(c) Running a day care for working moms.
(d) Tutoring kids.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the place that Richard mentions that all people from New York City go in the summer?

2. While Richard and his father were examining the leaf that was picked off a tree he stated that the line is the beginning of a fly with what color eyes?

3. What did Richard invite his first date to do with him?

4. What was the name of the girl that Richard has his first date with?

5. Richard states that he joined a specific group because Arlene had joined that group. What kind of group was it?

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