A Fistful of Fig Newtons Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Jean Shepherd
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Fistful of Fig Newtons Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Jean Shepherd
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Mole People Battle the Forces of Darkness, pages 41-65.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, New Jersey residents are chronic _______________.
(a) Smokers.
(b) Coughers.
(c) Gamblers.
(d) Tailgaters.

2. What does the narrator consider the place he is stranded?
(a) Hell.
(b) Limbo.
(c) Purgatory.
(d) Heaven.

3. According to the narrator, behind all the gaudiness of New Jersey lies ____________________.
(a) More gaudiness.
(b) People struggling to survive.
(c) Endless subdivisions.
(d) A human striving for something grand.

4. Who is the head of the summer camp?
(a) Colonel Buford.
(b) Colonel Bastion.
(c) Colonel Quigby.
(d) Colonel Bullard.

5. According to the narrator, American culture builds up what kind of ideas?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Utopian.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Implausible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator traveling as the book opens?

2. Where does the narrator think many great ideas are invented?

3. What about Big Al Dagellio irritates the narrator?

4. Kissel thinks that the emblem on the Beavers' jackets looks like a squirrel holding _________________.

5. The narrator now understands that _______________ bet against the school team and disabled the star player in the laxative contest.

(see the answer key)

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