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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color of Mercedes does Fulghum claim feels like him?
(a) Onyx black.
(b) Dark blue.
(c) Crisp white.
(d) Silver gray.

2. In the Solomon Islands, the villagers practice a unique form of what?
(a) Baking.
(b) Logging.
(c) Plowing.
(d) Gardening.

3. What does Fulghum claim his next-door neighbor yelled at for most of an afternoon?
(a) His rain gutters.
(b) A stepladder.
(c) His horse.
(d) His garden hose.

4. In Fulghum's list of rules in the first chapter, he says you should wash your hands before doing what?
(a) Eating.
(b) Drinking your milk.
(c) Playing a game.
(d) Feeding the hungry.

5. What did the man in Chapter 16 claim was the biggest irony of all during his theory testing?
(a) That Chicago was full of beggars who really had a lot of money to begin with.
(b) That the taxi drivers in Los Angeles were concerned about his being scammed.
(c) That the taxi drivers in Boston warned him about bad taxi drivers in New York City.
(d) That several of the taxi drivers warned him that New York was full of crooks and to be careful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fulghum states that inspiration for brevity came from a particular place. What was this place?

2. What age does Fulghum claim he was before he knew that people even cleaned gutters and downspouts?

3. In Chapter 36, what is the profession of the man who has the car with the dead battery?

4. When Fulghum writes his personal beliefs down, how many pages does he try to fill?

5. When the grumpy-looking man picks up his little gift and starts to walk toward the garbage, Fulghum mentions that it looks as if the man is carrying what?

(see the answer key)

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