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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the mittens the narrator wears after his syphilis treatment originate?
(a) Norway.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Greenland.

2. The sentence “Deluded admonitions, however true; futile tenderness, however comforting” (120) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Synecdoche.

3. What High Renaissance artist does the narrator invoke when describing “the expression [he] saw on Asha’s face [as] one of tenderness” (193)?
(a) Raphael.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Donatello.

4. Which of the following euphemistic labels does the narrator apply to syphilis?
(a) The Private Problem.
(b) The Spanish Flu.
(c) The French Disease.
(d) The Great Pretender.

5. What does the narrator report is his blood type?
(a) O positive.
(b) O negative.
(c) AB negative.
(d) AB positive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases does the narrator use to describe Trump’s ascendancy (23)?

2. How much is the revised estimate for the repair to the narrator’s car in Scranton?

3. Which of the following does the narrator receive as a gift for his forty-second birthday?

4. In what year does the narrator report winning a Pulitzer?

5. Which of the following refers to Moroni as “the finest mind of her generation” (xiii)?

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