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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes for Nick's father for help while he and Nick are on a fishing trip?
(a) Two loggers
(b) A Marine
(c) A banker
(d) Two criminals

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

4. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?
(a) Goes on a walk with his father
(b) Takes the car into town
(c) Goes fishing
(d) Takes the boat out onto the lake

5. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
(a) A nuisance
(b) Stolen property
(c) Kindling
(d) Zeus' toothpicks

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?

2. What job did the narrator have in the war?

3. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?

4. Who is Dick Boulton?

5. What is a woman doing on a cart?

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