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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?
(a) To go skinny dipping
(b) To set night lines for trout
(c) To go to a dance
(d) To elope

2. What job did the narrator have in the war?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Supplies
(c) Reporter
(d) Chaplain

3. What are Nick and Marjorie doing as the story begins?
(a) Riding bicycles
(b) Studying
(c) Playing tennis
(d) Rowing in a boat

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

5. Who is Marjorie?
(a) Nick's girlfriend
(b) Nick's mother
(c) Nick's sister
(d) Nick's piano teacher

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Nick's friends asks about Marjorie?

2. What does Boulton call Nick's father?

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

4. Who comes for Nick's father for help while he and Nick are on a fishing trip?

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

(see the answer key)

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