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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor mean when he says they "picked poor robin clean"?
(a) They have taken all the narrator's money.
(b) They have damaged the narrator's personality
(c) They have completely destroyed the narrator's memories
(d) They have eliminated any possibility of getting a job.

2. What does the narrator want to do in Chapter 12?
(a) spend time alone
(b) get a new job
(c) make speeches
(d) marry Mary Rambo

3. What does the narrator notice at the funeral that he would like to exploit?
(a) The large attendance on the part of the youth`
(b) The tension of the crowd
(c) The carelessness of the policemen
(d) The absence of the Brotherhood

4. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?
(a) The man was preaching nonsense.
(b) The man greeted him with hostility.
(c) He thinks the man is Bledsoe.
(d) The man insulted him.

5. What does the narrator tell Mr. Emerson that he wants to do with his future?
(a) become a teacher
(b) get a high paying position in the city
(c) become Mr. Bledsoe's assistant
(d) remain quietly in New York

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption does Mary make regarding the source of the $100 given to her by the narrator?

2. Why is the narrator unable to say much about Clifton?

3. After whom does the narrator say he wants to pattern himself?

4. In Chapter 14, why is Mary cooking cabbage?

5. What does Westrum use as evidence that the narrator is only trying to promote himself?

(see the answer key)

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