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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, North by Northeast, Chapters 1-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does William eat that looks like an "airy tube the color of a thunderhead"?
(a) Cotton candy.
(b) Dried scorpions.
(c) Candy.
(d) Hopi cornflakes.

2. What is one thing Mrs. Watkins likes to have for breakfast, according to Mr. Watkins?
(a) Cereal.
(b) Sugar doughnut.
(c) Toast.
(d) Pancakes.

3. What poet said "Memory is a kind of accomplishment" that William thinks of as he drives toward Dime Box?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Donne.
(c) Dante.
(d) William Carlos Williams.

4. What does William say about Kansas City, Kansas, in the opening pages of "South by Southwest"?
(a) His favorite city.
(b) He grew up twenty miles from there.
(c) He lived there as a child.
(d) First Western town.

5. What happens to William's van on the campus of East Carolina University?
(a) Someone tries to steal it.
(b) Students laugh at it.
(c) It starts to get towed.
(d) It breaks down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style house does Scott live in?

2. What is the name of the road William takes in Arizona that is mountainous and has a sign "Impassable to Trailers"?

3. Who are James Walker and Charles Davis?

4. What does "day down" mean?

5. What does William like best about Pete and his family?

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