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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?
(a) Children crying for milk
(b) Men begging for food
(c) Women vomiting in the streets
(d) The women with dead babies who will not relinquish them

2. What does Nick say is no longer any fun?
(a) Skinny dipping
(b) Fishing
(c) Baseball
(d) Love

3. In the Memoir for Chapter 4, what do the soldiers use for a barricade against the enemy?
(a) Wrought iron grating
(b) Sandbags
(c) Some old cars
(d) A decaying building

4. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?
(a) A French waiter
(b) An American officer
(c) A Buddhist monk
(d) A Hungarian gypsy

5. What do the Greek soldiers do to their mules after they break the front legs of the animals?
(a) Bludgeon them to death
(b) Force them to carry heavy loads
(c) Shoot them in the head
(d) Push them off the dock into shallow water

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?

2. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?

3. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?

4. What do Nick, his father and Uncle George deal with at the Indian camp?

5. In what year does this story take place?

(see the answer key)

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