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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?
(a) Provide first aid
(b) Yell at them to go home
(c) Run their searchlight up and down the crowd
(d) Give them food

3. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?
(a) Marie
(b) Mary
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) Marjorie

4. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?
(a) He is with his combat unit
(b) He is writing restaurant reviews
(c) He is visiting relatives
(d) He is on vacation

5. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) William Faulkner
(d) T.S. Eliot

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Adams do in his bedroom?

2. What is the setting for the Memoir of Chapter 2?

3. What is Nick's father's profession?

4. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?

5. What profession does Nick's father have?

(see the answer key)

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