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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Preface to The Child Runs Deep in Filidor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following career choices does Joey find most annoying?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Tanning.
(d) Beekeeping.

2. Who interrupts the dual, loudly clattering into the classroom?
(a) Pimko.
(b) Kneadus.
(c) Kopydra.
(d) Hopek.

3. What does the narrator think will happen to a novel in which the first word is heroic?
(a) The novel will end on a note of desperation.
(b) The author will feel trapped by that word.
(c) The author will be confused with his intentions.
(d) The novel will ultimately fail.

4. In the English classroom after the schoolyard fight, which is the only student prepared to discuss the material?
(a) Kneadus.
(b) Joey.
(c) Syphon.
(d) Mizdral.

5. Which of the following groups of people does Kneadus praise?
(a) Peasants.
(b) Painters.
(c) Policemen.
(d) Prophets.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what are all writers dependent on above all else?

2. What grade does the teacher give to all the students to translate languages?

3. Which of the following actions is not something the children do to try to prove Pimko wrong in his theories about them?

4. Who does Kneadus challenge to a dual of pulling faces?

5. What does the teacher complain to Pimko about in regard to his students?

(see the answer key)

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