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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long do the woodsmen in the Solomon Islands continue their ritual for one tree?
(a) Twenty-two days.
(b) Forty-five days.
(c) Thirty days.
(d) Fifteen days.

2. When the man in Chapter 16 was testing his theory on whether you can trust people, how many taxi drivers out of thirty-seven cheated him?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Fifteen.

3. Fulghum claims it's too bad that the villagers on the Solomon Islands don't have the advantages of modern technology and what kind of mind?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Educated.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Simple.

4. Fulghum thinks it would be a better world if we all had cookies and milk at what time?
(a) Ten o'clock in the morning.
(b) Noon.
(c) Three o'clock in the afternoon.
(d) Six o'clock in the evening.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 35, Fulghum states that he doesn't kill what?

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

3. What does Fulghum claim his next-door neighbor yelled at for most of an afternoon?

4. After Charles Boyer's wife died in his arms, Charles died two days later. How did Charles die?

5. In Chapter 9, what is the other group that Fulghum mentions, besides merchants, that he counts on?

(see the answer key)

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