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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the twins receive as their graduation present from their Ma and Ray when they're headed off to college?
(a) Books.
(b) Typewriter.
(c) Money.
(d) A new car.

2. Nedra Frank is the ____________ who does not return the memoir when she is hired to translate it.
(a) Family friend.
(b) Graduate student.
(c) Nun.
(d) Literature professor.

3. Where does Thomas decide to cut off his hand in order to escape being drafted into the military?
(a) At the training center.
(b) Three Rivers Public Library.
(c) In a mental hospital.
(d) On the battlefield.

4. Dominick awakes from a dream in which he ignores Thomas' skill at __________________.
(a) Reading.
(b) Skipping rocks across a pond.
(c) Acting.
(d) Singing.

5. What is the diagnosis which has been given to Thomas, in which he hears voices and sees hallucinations?
(a) Dissociative Identity Disorder.
(b) Paranoid schizophrenia.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) He has no diagnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ma warns the twins not to gawk or to talk about anyone with ___________, though they seem to be everywhere.

2. Billy Covington is the man who dies in Vietnam, a man who idolized _____________, though the reader doesn't learn much more.

3. Ray is the stepfather who works the third shift at ____________ when the twins are growing up with their Ma.

4. In a biblical passage, _________ tells the disciples to cut off the body parts which offend in order to avoiding burning in hell.

5. Thomas has episodes of ________________ in which he obsesses about something and is unable to let it go.

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