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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: if only, Chapters 18-19 and Part V: never any knowing, Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of facility is St. Helena Hospital?
(a) An animal hospital.
(b) A drug rehabilitation facility.
(c) A psychiatric hospital.
(d) A medical hospital.

2. David characterizes Nic as a child who does what every time he encounters a puddle?
(a) Rolls in it.
(b) Stomps in it.
(c) Splashes it on the nearest person.
(d) Walks around it.

3. To what city does Vicki move when she leaves the Bay Area?
(a) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Redding.
(d) Sacramento.

4. How does David feel about joint custody?
(a) He tolerates it.
(b) He has a love/hate relationship with it.
(c) He likes it.
(d) He loathes it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does David call when he wants someone to check on Nic after he stops returning phone calls?

2. Whose suicide note serves as a source of Part I's epigraph?

3. After begging his father to be put into another rehab program just after his near-fatal overdose, Nic takes what action?

4. What is NOT a piece of evidence that tells the author and his wife that Nic has broken into the family home?

5. What two districts of San Francisco does David scour looking for Nic?

(see the answer key)

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