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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Claude able to do now that he works in Mr. Weisfeld's music store?
(a) Buy a brand new piano.
(b) Learn how to play other instruments.
(c) Afford his own necessities.
(d) Practice whenever he wants.

2. Who do Claude and Emma discover belongs to the Communist Party?
(a) A secret customer.
(b) Mr. Weisfeld.
(c) The neighbor with whom Claude occasionally stays.
(d) Al Johnson.

3. What business arrangement does Claude enter into with Al Johnson, a maintenance man?
(a) Claude plays the piano while Al plays the saxophone on a street corner.
(b) Claude helps Al with custodial work.
(c) They sell cleaning supplies.
(d) They split the money from collecting soda bottles in the garbage.

4. Why does Claude begin to go to the movies?
(a) As a diversion.
(b) His friends convince him to go.
(c) He likes a girl who works there.
(d) To hear the music played with the movie.

5. Why is the location of the apartment in which Claude lives with his mother important?
(a) Claude is afraid of heights.
(b) Claude realizes people are always going somewhere as he watches them pass.
(c) Claude can see most of the city from his apartment.
(d) Claude likes to read the expressions on the faces of the people who pass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Regarding Claude's father, what does Emma ask Claude not to do?

2. How does Claude come to accompany Peter Fisk as he plays?

3. What does Claude's mother do when she comes home from her job of driving a taxi?

4. Who keeps Claude company after his mother goes to bed when she comes home from work?

5. What is Claude's physique as a young boy?

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