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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Chapter VIII and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment about “his ceaselessly shifting emotions, his evasions and avowals and disavowals, the steady shedding of his civility” (14) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Anaphora.

2. In what grade is the narrator in 1979?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Fourth.

3. What is the name of the investigating agent who asks the narrator about Rind’s investment company?
(a) Watkins.
(b) Waller.
(c) Walter.
(d) Watkinson.

4. The comment about “the disgusting social and military project that would come to bloom in Syria and Iraq like toxic desert dogbane” (77) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Simile.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Metaphor.

5. In what state does Jacobs grow up?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much debt does the narrator remark he is carrying when he puts his car in for repair in Scranton?

2. Which of the following does the narrator call “the last of [his mother’s] edible pleasures” (217)?

3. To which vice-president does the narrator compare Latif?

4. To how high an interest rate is the narrator forced to agree in the repair shop in Scranton?

5. Which of the following countries is represented among the medical students who observe the narrator’s treatment for syphilis?

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