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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. How does Allagash help explain Amanda's omnipresence in the apartment?
(a) She has left pictures of herself everywhere.
(b) She calls once a week and hangs up before the narrator can speak.
(c) She has left her skin behind in the form of dust.
(d) She has left all her clothes in the closet.

2. What does the narrator see in the window of Saks?
(a) Tad Allagash's photo.
(b) A mannequin of Amanda.
(c) A fight between a couple.
(d) A featured spread of his magazine.

3. What kind of guy does the narrator see himself as?
(a) The kind of guy who runs marathons for fun.
(b) The kind of guy who enjoys facts and spurns fiction.
(c) The kind of guy who appreciates a night a home with a good book.
(d) The kind of guy who is the life of the party.

4. When the narrator leaves for lunch, what does Megan ask him to bring back for her?
(a) A diet soda.
(b) A ham sandwich.
(c) A Tab.
(d) A salad.

5. Why does the narrator not want to have lunch with Alex?
(a) Alex is recently divorced and unstable.
(b) Alex always makes the narrator pick up the check.
(c) Alex is unfriendly and does not like the narrator's writing.
(d) Alex is an alcoholic and will put away a couple of drinks at lunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose picture does the narrator see on Rittenhouse's paper?

2. How does the narrator feel about his childhood?

3. What animal does the narrator compare to Amanda?

4. What happens to the narrator's deadline on the French piece?

5. What heath ailment does Wade knowingly joke about with the narrator?

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