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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do most of the customers in "Firestone" react to the narrator's attempts to convert them to his religion?
(a) They are willing to listen, but decline to take action.
(b) They are rude and resistant.
(c) They are open to his ideas.
(d) They ignore him.

2. How did a piece of tissue become stuck in the narrator's ear in "Music for Lovers"?
(a) He put it in there to drown out the sound of Anita O'Day's music.
(b) He accidentally pushed it in there with a sharp object.
(c) He put it in there to drown out the sound of his daughter's music.
(d) His daughter pushes it into his ear.

3. Why does the narrator of "Music for Lovers" think it is pointless for his daughter to listen to dance music?
(a) He will not allow her out of the house to go to dances.
(b) He thinks she is destined for a career as a nightclub singer.
(c) She does not have legs, and therefore, cannot dance.
(d) She does not have feet, and therefore, cannot dance.

4. What does Don do to Mrs. Toni when she ridicules his dreams of stardom in "Don's Story"?
(a) He pokes her with a bathroom key.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He stabs her with a switchblade.
(d) He asks the bus driver to pull over so she can leave the bus.

5. In "We Get Along", what does the narrator's father record in a notebook hidden in his desk drawer?
(a) Women he has had affairs with.
(b) Men he has had affairs with.
(c) Secret information about his tenants
(d) Bets placed by tenants

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator of "Firestone" give a woman on the bus his sneakers?

2. Who does the narrator of "Firestone" claim is trying to make his job at the service station difficult?

3. Why does the narrator of "Parade" specifically choose Oprah's show to appear on?

4. Why does Brandon Tartikoff offer Don a contract for his life story in "Don's Story"?

5. How does the narrator's father die in "We Get Along"?

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