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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. How does the narrator feel about literary critics who hold fast to the iron-clad rules of construction?
(a) He is confused by them.
(b) He ridicules them.
(c) He ignores them.
(d) He admires them.

2. In the dream, how does Joey react when he sees a younger apparition of himself waving to him?
(a) He waves back to the apparition.
(b) He runs away from the apparition.
(c) He slaps the apparition in the face.
(d) He shakes hands with the apparition.

3. What does Joey believe a writer's job should be?
(a) Speaking so the people understand you.
(b) Speaking in one's own true voice.
(c) Speaking in a voice that represents the masses.
(d) Speaking so no one can understand what you're saying.

4. Which of the following adjectives does Pimko use to describe the children on the playground in his notes?
(a) Overweight.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Innocent.
(d) Excitable.

5. What sound signifies the end of class at Joey's school?
(a) A rooster crowing.
(b) A baby crying.
(c) A cricket chirping.
(d) A bell ringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following metaphors does the narrator use to describe the way a novel is constructed?

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

3. What is the professor who is known as "Anti-Filidor's" real last name?

4. How does Syphon rally his men when they seem to dwindle in the schoolyard fight?

5. After experiencing the dream in which the apparition waves to him, what does Joey feel most inspired to do when he wakes up?

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