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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made people think that John was a prodigy?
(a) His reading.
(b) His quick sense of humor.
(c) His photographic memory.
(d) His musical ability.

2. How does John characterize his relationship with his parents?
(a) They were overly concerned and oppressive.
(b) They didn't know what he was doing.
(c) They were always together.
(d) They were close.

3. How does John say his biology teacher treated him?
(a) He says that the teacher was always getting him in trouble.
(b) He says that the teacher was always inviting him to stay after to talk with him alone.
(c) He says that the teacher was always questioning his work, and doubting his answers.
(d) He says that the teacher was always on his back.

4. What does John say he can now see about his father?
(a) That he was sick.
(b) That he was depressed.
(c) That he was profoundly unhappy in his marriage.
(d) That he was dying.

5. What story did John have to recant?
(a) That he kept a rabid raccoon as a pet.
(b) That he was raising a baby he found in a dumpster.
(c) That he was going to Harvard.
(d) That he had seen feral children in his rounds as a garbage man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John buy when he sold his first Porsche?

2. What strange behavior did Dr. Finch exhibit?

3. How does John say he kept himself popular?

4. How was John spending his time when he was sixteen?

5. Where did John spend the summer when he was thirteen?

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