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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fulghum states that inspiration for brevity came from a particular place. What was this place?
(a) The local farmer's market.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The barbershop.
(d) The gasoline station.

2. While the soldiers and priests in San Saba waited for the Indians to show up, how did they bide their time?
(a) They swam in the river and ran races.
(b) They made up stories and songs.
(c) They wrote journals.
(d) They practiced their shooting.

3. What two things does Fulghum say he has and would stack up against a food processor any day?
(a) A metal peeler and a ceramic dish.
(b) A wooden bowl and chipping knife.
(c) A butchers knife and a wooden block.
(d) A pair of kitchen shears and a metal mixing bowl.

4. On August 24, where are the military units from that enter Angola in an offensive against the black nationalist guerrillas?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) India.

5. In the chapter about the neighbor woman and the spider, Fulghum states that spiders have been around for how many years?
(a) 500 thousand years.
(b) 350 million years.
(c) 200 million years.
(d) 400 thousand years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fulghum's lawyer friend travels with his two eighteen-year-old girls and what kind of animal?

2. At the end of Chapter 8, Fulghum claims he is sure of something, what is that thing he is sure of?

3. How long do the woodsmen in the Solomon Islands continue their ritual for one tree?

4. When the military units who have entered Angola encounter the Russian soldiers, how many Russian soldiers were killed?

5. How many years was Charles Boyer married to his wife?

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