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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: A Girl Named Maranda.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unusual solution did one doctor suggest Maranda try twice a day for her seizures?
(a) Cod liver oil.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Leeches.
(d) Wheatgrass.

2. Who introduced the author to Schubert's Eighth Symphony (Unfinished)?
(a) Curtis.
(b) Sharper.
(c) Mrs. Miller.
(d) Sgt. Hunt.

3. What college group was Candy involved in that amazed the author?
(a) Honor Society.
(b) An underground newspaper.
(c) Yale Symphony and Bach Society.
(d) Yale Repertory Theatre.

4. What homework assignment did the author give Luis and Terry Francisco before Maranda's surgery?
(a) Say their prayers.
(b) Watch some movies to distract them from worry.
(c) Sign up for family counseling.
(d) Buy Maranda a toy from the gift shop.

5. What damage did the author do with a rock in "A Terrible Temper"?
(a) He broke his brother's model airplane.
(b) He hit his mother with it.
(c) He broke a neighborhood kid's glasses and smashed his nose.
(d) He smashed a window of a business in town.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says he was hooked the first few times he looked down upon what?

2. What did Maranda say, in "A Girl Named Maranda," that she wanted after her hemispherectomy?

3. Why does the author say he experiences less of a negative response from patients nowadays?

4. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?

5. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?

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