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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 174).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's mother's career?
(a) Accountancy.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Teaching.

2. What does Gloria's daughter do for a living?
(a) She is a helicopter pilot.
(b) She is a policewoman.
(c) She is a baker.
(d) She is an accountant.

3. What does Mandy dream about the day she meets the man in the creek?
(a) Her mother dying.
(b) Being beaten.
(c) Dark men emerging from the water.
(d) Dogs chasing her.

4. Which band does the music star say Ed is really from?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) The Beacboys.
(c) The Bellboys.
(d) The Deacon and His Hounds of Hell.

5. What does Inez Cross Chasten tell Howard Hughes her husband does for a living?
(a) He is a teacher.
(b) He is a landscaper.
(c) He is a chef.
(d) He is a mechanic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask his mother how to cook in the story The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks?

2. Who is Ed's wife?

3. Where did Howard Hughes's father build a big mansion?

4. What does Lazarus call his aunt who is always trying to stick her nose in other people's business?

5. What does the man in the river tell Mandy to do when they hear men and dogs?

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