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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Imprisonment and Further Belittlement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the students in Joey's classroom react when they meet him for the first time?
(a) They welcome him.
(b) They beat him up.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They tease him.

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

3. Where does Joey think he is going in life?
(a) Joey thinks he's headed for failure.
(b) Joey thinks he's going to careen out of control.
(c) Joey thinks he's headed toward success.
(d) Joey doesn't think he's going anywhere.

4. Which of the following actions is not something the children do to try to prove Pimko wrong in his theories about them?
(a) They start fighting.
(b) They start writing graffiti.
(c) They start swearing.
(d) They start shredding his notes.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children react when they read Pimko's notes about their behavior?

2. Which of the following groups of people does not have major control over Joey's opinion of himself?

3. Through which of his body parts does Kneadus think Syphon's innocence can be ruined?

4. What does Joey dream about at the opening of the novel?

5. When Joey dreams of seeing himself in various forms of maturity in a dream, how do his other "selves" treat each other?

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