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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 attitude of the narrator telling the story?
(a) Amused
(b) Callous
(c) Sympathetic
(d) Angry

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

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

4. What fills the muddy roads leading out of the city?
(a) Greek citizens pulling carts with all their belongings
(b) Tanks and other military vehicles
(c) Garbage from a garbage strike
(d) Water from unrelenting rains

5. Who is Dick Boulton?
(a) The head of the local plumbers union
(b) A school board member
(c) The mayor of the town
(d) One of the men who comes to work for Nick's father

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?

2. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

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

4. Who else is attempting to leave Smyrna?

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

(see the answer key)

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