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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jack happy to find along the road in Chapter 3?
(a) The bridge.
(b) The creek.
(c) The cliff.
(d) The trees.

2. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?
(a) Pollack.
(b) Poe.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Who does Jack curse himself for returning to the cabin with later in Chapter 5?
(a) Dave Wain.
(b) George Baso.
(c) Cody Pomeray.
(d) Arthur Ma.

4. The narrator writes that the flies retreat at night like polite _____ flies in Chapter 5.
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Midnight.

5. What old buddy does the the narrator send a letter to in Chapter 9?
(a) William.
(b) Gerard.
(c) Michael.
(d) Julien.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, "You go out in joy and in sadness you return"?

2. What is the narrator carrying in Chapter 3?

3. What does the narrator write that the fishes of the sea speak in Chapter 7?

4. What does the narrator crawl through as he travels the road in Chapter 3?

5. What are the black things the narrator sees in the sand in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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