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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, Les Jeux Sont Faits.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Alex suspect homosexuality "comes from"?
(a) Hormones injected into beef.
(b) One's upbringing.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Vaccines given to children.

3. Whose picture does the narrator see on Rittenhouse's paper?
(a) Megan Avery's picture.
(b) Amanda's picture.
(c) His mother's picture.
(d) His own picture.

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

5. Of what object do the girls' eyes remind the narrator?
(a) A shiny piece of aluminum.
(b) A bruised apple.
(c) A Jeep Cherokee in the junkyard.
(d) A sandblasted shower door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the narrator compare to Amanda?

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

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

4. When the narrator dances with a girl at the club, what does she reveal she has heard about his wife?

5. What two feelings is the narrator torn between when he discovers his proofs are gone?

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