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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Dr. Adams think Boulton picked a fight with him?
(a) Boulton owes him money and did not want to do the job
(b) His wife just left him
(c) He is off his antidepressant medication
(d) He is angry about segregation

3. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?
(a) The Korean War
(b) World War I
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) World War II

4. What does Nick do at sunrise the next morning?
(a) Packs the car to return home
(b) Watches a bass jumping in the lake
(c) Goes into town to buy bait
(d) Cooks breakfast over the fire

5. What is the setting for the Memoir of Chapter 2?
(a) Paris
(b) Adrianople
(c) Istanbul
(d) Constantinople

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?

4. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

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

(see the answer key)

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