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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Jack, or The Submission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of whom does the fire chief say, "It is she who extinguished my first fires"?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Mary.
(d) Mrs. Smith.

2. Who tells about seeing a man tying his shoes in the street in The Bald Soprano?
(a) Mrs. Smith.
(b) Mr. Smith.
(c) Mrs. Martin.
(d) Mr. Martin.

3. In The Lesson, the professor says that "our contemporary life has become most" what?
(a) Insatiable.
(b) Violent.
(c) Cordial.
(d) Complex.

4. Jack's sister tells their mother that all roads lead to where?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Sicily.

5. What does Mother Jack call Father Jack in Jack, or The Submission?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Lover.
(c) Gaston.
(d) Husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the professor say of the weather in The Lesson?

2. What is another word for phonemes?

3. What doctor, before operating on Parker, "had his own liver operated on first," in The Bald Soprano?

4. What does Jack's father do to him early in Jack, or The Submission?

5. In The Bald Soprano, who says, "you are both partly right. When the doorbell rings, sometimes there is someone, other times there is no one"?

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