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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mike completing his new novel?
(a) He is using material he has created in other years.
(b) He has decided not to finish it.
(c) He writing 20 hours a day.
(d) He is plagiarizing.

2. As Mike takes an after dinner walk, he is overcome by a perception of _____________________.
(a) A drowning Negro boy.
(b) A car jumping the sidewalk.
(c) Someone watching him through binoculars.
(d) An imminent thunderstorm.

3. What device does Mike find in his office at the cabin?
(a) A cell phone.
(b) An adding machine.
(c) A dictating machine.
(d) A cutting board.

4. What is the TR that Mike refers to in the book?
(a) Tech-Rite.
(b) Train Ride.
(c) Travel Route.
(d) TR-90.

5. Mike sees an old woman at the dock who is so thin he calls her a _____________________ in his mind.
(a) Bag of bones.
(b) Pogo stick.
(c) Stick figure.
(d) Bean pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many railroad tie steps are there between Mike's house and the lake?

2. Whom does Mike encounter as he takes an after dinner walk?

3. How much does John Storrow say his legal fees will cost Mike at a minimum?

4. Who helps Mike get up onto the float?

5. Mike's book, "The Red Shirt Man", came about when he saw a man working as a ____________________.

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