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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, The Department of Factual Verification.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What river is the narrator gazing across?
(a) The Mississippi River.
(b) The Ohio River.
(c) The East River.
(d) The Hudson River.

2. In what point of view is the novel written?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person.

3. What is Tad Allagash's main goal in life?
(a) He is an athlete and constantly training for the Olympic games.
(b) He is doctor and is working fervently to cure cancer.
(c) He strives to have more fun than anyone else in New York City.
(d) He hopes one day to become mayor of New York City.

4. Who does the narrator hope to meet in the club?
(a) His ex-wife Amanda.
(b) The kind of girl who would not be in a place like that.
(c) A movie star.
(d) The co-worker of his dreams, Clara Tillinghast.

5. In which branch of the magazine does the narrator work?
(a) The New Voices Department.
(b) The Fiction Department.
(c) The Grammar Department.
(d) The Department of Factual Verification.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how often is the narrator late to work?

2. What does stepping outside the club feel like to the narrator?

3. What is the New Jersey state motto?

4. With whom did the narrator come to the club?

5. What does the homeless person do on the narrator's train ride to work?

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