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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chaps. 15-28, pp.114-158.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jaromil agonizes over his hair. What kind of hair does he have?
(a) Very curly hair.
(b) Thin, brown hair.
(c) Dark, thick hair.
(d) Soft, blond hair.

2. What is the first time Jaromil's words save him from punishment?
(a) When he yelled in a trochee speech pattern.
(b) When his insult was a rhyme.
(c) When he used adult vocabulary at a young age.
(d) When he began reciting the encyclopedia.

3. In desperation for a response, what does Jaromil mail to the famous poet?
(a) Twenty telephone receivers.
(b) His own long poem written in the poet's most recent book.
(c) A twenty-page letter.
(d) A grey striped dove.

4. What does Jaromil think is the quintessential surrealist object?
(a) The statue of Apollo.
(b) His mother's light blue perfume bottle.
(c) The telephone receiver with the dangling cord.
(d) The chair leg if seen by itself.

5. Why does Maman weep as the artist makes love to her?
(a) She is finally ashamed of the affair.
(b) She equates him to the Apollo statue, which she had wanted to be the model of Jaromil's personality.
(c) She is sad that she will never marry him.
(d) She knows that she is nothing more than the canvas for his ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maman take her husband's picture off the wall?

2. The second time that Jaromil does not make love to the university girl, what does she think?

3. Who was Jaromil's first and greatest friend?

4. Where does Xavier usually go when he skips school?

5. Why does Xavier leave the beautiful woman?

(see the answer key)

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