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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Elliot fill her days?
(a) Typing Mr. Elliot's poetry
(b) Working in the garden
(c) Baking cookies
(d) Tutoring high school students

2. What makes Krebs' mother cry?
(a) When Krebs and his father fight
(b) When Krebs slaps her
(c) When Krebs says he does not love anybody
(d) When Krebs says he is going to reenlist

3. What does the wife tell the maid that she wanted?
(a) Room service
(b) Her car
(c) Her dry cleaning
(d) The cat

4. What is unusual about Ad's face?
(a) His eyes are slits, nose is sunken and an ear is missing
(b) He has no eyebrows
(c) One eye is brown, the other is blue
(d) He is scarred on the entire left side

5. What profession does Nick's father have?
(a) Accountant
(b) Doctor
(c) Lawyer
(d) Minister

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the hotel keeper have sent to the American wife in her room?

3. What is meant by "riding the rails?"

4. Where does Nick find Bill?

5. Who is Agnes von Kurowsky?

(see the answer key)

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