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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 32- 43 (pg 103 - 133).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 28, the author writes, "The Chink is right: life is essentially _____."
(a) Insincere.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Disappointing.
(d) Playful.

2. What does Robbins write is relative to velocity in Chapter 30?
(a) Mass.
(b) Love.
(c) Time.
(d) Space.

3. What is the outhouse radio playing in the beginning of Chapter 33?
(a) "The Cowboy Opera."
(b) "Lonesome Road."
(c) "The Starving Armenians Polka."
(d) "Stand By Your Man."

4. The first car that ever stopped for Sissy was a what?
(a) Jaguar.
(b) Chevrolet.
(c) Pontiac.
(d) Ford.

5. Robbins writes in Chapter 2, "The image of the clockworks tugs gently at the author's cuff, much as the ghost of ____ tugs at the linen tablecloths of certain restaurants."
(a) Heinz Mustard.
(b) Ketchup.
(c) Duncan Hines.
(d) Pork fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robbins write leaves no fossils?

2. What fashion did the Countess believe Sissy to have inspired in the late 1960s?

3. What is the name of the church where Julian and Sissy get married?

4. What month is it in Chapter 31, 9 months into the marriage of Sissy and Julian?

5. On what street in New York is the Museum of the American Indian that Sissy and Julian visit?

(see the answer key)

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