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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a major problem of Doc's job?
(a) Getting the universities to pay him
(b) Collecting his specimens when nature makes them available
(c) The smells inside his lab
(d) Fighting off boredom

2. What is ironic about Henri the Painter?
(a) His real name is Henry.
(b) He is neither French nor a painter.
(c) He is a house painter.
(d) He is of Irish descent.

3. What are Mack and the boys known as now?
(a) Social outcasts
(b) The life of the party
(c) Heroes
(d) Religious zealots

4. What happens when the boiler at the answer to #51 stops working?
(a) It causes a fire which burns an entire block.
(b) It is dumped and gutted for parts.
(c) It blows up.
(d) It has run successfully for ten years straight.

5. As a result of his generosity and sympathy, people want to ________________________.
(a) take Doc out to dinner
(b) do nice things for Doc
(c) donate time to Doc
(d) give money to Doc

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doc eat before leaving Monterey?

2. How is Cannery Row described in Chapter 14?

3. What job does Doc assign to Mack?

4. Who is the only person in town who has the nerve to ask the flagpole sitter how he goes to the toilet?

5. Why does Doc have to treat the people who come down with the illness?

(see the answer key)

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