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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: stay up late, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Nic's two first-ever dogs?
(a) Buster and Keaton.
(b) Alex and Sebastian.
(c) Moon-dog and Brutus.
(d) Tobias and Beatrix.

2. What is NOT something listed among the things Vicki and David divide upon their divorce?
(a) Their German shepherd.
(b) Their china.
(c) Their art.
(d) Their young son.

3. Before taking up surfing, Nic had never wanted to go to the beach for what reason?
(a) He had not wanted to show his body.
(b) He had liked video games better than nature.
(c) He had not wanted to get sandy.
(d) He had not wanted to get a sunburn.

4. Whom does David quote as saying, "Home is a holy thing" (67)?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Phyllis Wheatley.

5. In what year does David first use marijuana?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nic begins sixth grade at a new school in what location?

2. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?

3. At what age does Nic start traveling back and forth between his two homes unaccompanied by an adult?

4. David names which Spike Lee film as one of Nic's very favorite movies?

5. Whom does Nic call his "worry doctor" (22)?

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