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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the cause of Johnny's debilitating illness during his teen years?
(a) Emphysema.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) Autism.
(d) Lukemia.

2. What was John Gunther's first novel titled?
(a) Inside U.S.A.
(b) Bright Nemesis.
(c) The Lost City.
(d) The Red Pavilion.

3. When was Max Gerson born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1942.

4. What term refers to a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability?
(a) Migrant.
(b) Prodigy.
(c) Saliency.
(d) Elitist.

5. How much of the tumor were the doctors able to remove during Johnny's first operation in Chapter 1?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) Two thirds.
(d) One fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, just before Johnny became critically ill, he and his father discussed books and writing and talked about going to the country on what day?

2. What school had John Gunther attended for his high school education?

3. Henry DeWolf Smyth was the chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton University from 1935 until when?

4. Johnny underwent x-ray treatment until what date, when they stopped the treatment because of the danger of killing off tissue and causing white blood cells to deteriorate, in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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