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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30, Hole.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find himself longing for underground?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) Sunlight.
(c) The morning newspaper.
(d) A cup of coffee.

2. What does the narrator notice about the woman that he follows down the corridor?
(a) She talks a lot.
(b) She is loud.
(c) She is chubby.
(d) She doesn't smell good.

3. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather can do for the narrator in regards to his wound?
(a) He can close the wound.
(b) He can cancel the awareness of pain.
(c) He can stop the bleeding.
(d) He can turn back time to before the time of the wound.

4. What does the narrator say may be the signal to put physical pain out of mind?
(a) Memories.
(b) Pretty girls.
(c) Cowboys.
(d) Ben Johnson.

5. How does the Colonel say the Town feels about the passing of a shadow?
(a) It is a solemn event.
(b) They are relieved that the shadow is finally gone.
(c) They don't talk about it.
(d) It is wonderful to be freed of the weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the Colonel NOT give as a possible reason for his work as a soldier?

2. What do the girl and the narrator find half-way up the tower?

3. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?

4. What time of year does the narrator say it is at the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?

(see the answer key)

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