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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Guy not use his mechanical abilities on the machines in the canneries?
(a) Guy is too shy to ask for work.
(b) Guy has a bad temper.
(c) The owners are too cheap to hire him.
(d) Guy never shows up on time.

2. What happens when Lee's car refuses to go any further without a new needle valve?
(a) Gay knows of a good junkyard and gets what he needs there.
(b) Gay sets off to find one and disappears for 180 days.
(c) The boys hitchhike to where they are going.
(d) Mack knows a friend who can help them.

3. What do some say the old Chinaman is?
(a) God or Death
(b) A bad omen
(c) Crazy
(d) Adventurous

4. What does Doc do for Frankie?
(a) Feeds him and sends him back home
(b) Sends him back to school
(c) Adopts him
(d) Cleans him, rids him of lice and clothes him

5. What do the boys hit in Lee's car?
(a) A skunk
(b) A deer
(c) A rooster
(d) Another car

Short Answer Questions

1. What are there few of afoot in the early hours of Cannery Row?

2. What is the name of the old Chinaman who walks through Cannery Row every day?

3. How does Lee's car make it over Carmel Hill?

4. As a result of his generosity and sympathy, people want to ________________________.

5. Why does Lee make the decision he does about the building?

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