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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Till a new garden
(b) Paint his house
(c) Plant some new trees
(d) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property

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

5. What do Nick, his father and Uncle George deal with at the Indian camp?
(a) A primitive caesarean section for a breech birth
(b) Floods washing away the cabins
(c) Wounds from knife fights
(d) Fires burning all around the camp

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?

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

3. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?

4. What are Nick and Marjorie doing as the story begins?

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

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