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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bugs offer to Nick?
(a) Cigarettes
(b) Food
(c) Chocolate
(d) Clothes

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What military force is withdrawing from the city of Smyrna?

2. Why do Nick and Bill not go out in the boat?

3. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?

4. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?

5. In what year does this story take place?

(see the answer key)

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