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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, The Utility of Fiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does stepping outside the club feel like to the narrator?
(a) A heavenly descent.
(b) A brisk morning walk.
(c) A mother's reproach.
(d) A shopping trip at Christmastime.

2. Why does the narrator dislike going home?
(a) He lives with his nagging mother.
(b) He lives with an unruly roommate.
(c) His apartment is a slum and infested with cockroaches.
(d) His apartment is haunted with thoughts of his ex-wife.

3. Upon his discovery, what phrase does the narrator blurt out?
(a) "Bon appétit."
(b) "Better safe than sorry."
(c) "Et tu, Brute?"
(d) "To each his own."

4. What is the narrator's nickname for cocaine?
(a) Damage Control.
(b) Clubbing Powder.
(c) Powdered Sugar.
(d) Bolivian Marching Powder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is the narrator depressed about his current situation?

2. How was the narrator's innocent advice perceived by his superiors at the magazine?

3. What memo, signed by the Druid's assistant, arrives in the afternoon?

4. What does the narrator attempt to sit and write about?

5. What river is the narrator gazing across?

(see the answer key)

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