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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what do Nick and Bill agree is better than baseball?
(a) Fishing
(b) Whiskey
(c) Girls
(d) Books

3. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?
(a) Too much money
(b) Opening liquor bottles
(c) Sad memories
(d) No self restraint

4. What is Nick's father's profession?
(a) Accountant
(b) Lawyer
(c) Minister
(d) Doctor

5. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He has to go to work in the morning
(b) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods
(c) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(d) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does this story take place?

3. What does Nick say about his father?

4. What is the attitude of the narrator telling the story?

5. What fills the muddy roads leading out of the city?

(see the answer key)

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