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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Johnny Gunther is buried in what city in New York?
(a) Montauk.
(b) New York.
(c) Hartsdale.
(d) Jackson.

2. What is a diagnostic, and at times therapeutic, procedure that is performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis?
(a) Lobotomy.
(b) MRI.
(c) Spinal tap.
(d) C-Scan.

3. What was the name of Johnny's mother?
(a) Jane.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Frances.

4. Max Gerson immigrated to the United States in what year?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

5. When was Henry DeWolf Smyth born?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1852.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1939, Johnny's letters highlighted his interest in what in "A Few More of His Letters"?

2. What doctor vehemently opposed to removing Johnny's tumor in Chapter 3, stating that the tumor was dead and that it was sloughing itself out of his head?

3. In what year did Johnny come home from his boarding school for Christmas looking great in Chapter 1?

4. What color hair did Johnny have as a child?

5. After his first operation, Johnny wrote to some school friends describing his hospital stay and explained that they had to drill three holes into his skull in "A Few More of His Letters"?

(see the answer key)

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