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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stood up, vague as a sleepwalker, that Ed Thatcher sees as he looks across the Narrows?
(a) The Chrysler building.
(b) The Ford factory.
(c) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) The Statue of Liberty.

2. What song is Ed Thatcher trying to pick out on the piano?
(a) The Mosquito Parade.
(b) We're in the Money.
(c) How Great Thou Art.
(d) When the Saints Go Marchin in.

3. Where are John and Elaine going so that she can feel gay?
(a) Toronto.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) Upstate New York.

4. What does the old man ask Bud when he asks him about finding a job in New York?
(a) If he knows any rich people.
(b) If he has a union card.
(c) How old he is.
(d) If he can lift a hundred pounds.

5. What does the "bum" who was sleeping on the cot next to Bud call money?
(a) Moolah.
(b) Ducats.
(c) Mazuma.
(d) Caish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What competing lawyer comments to George Baldwin on his railroad case?

2. What is the boy Slats really good at?

3. Where is Bud born and raised?

4. What is the motto above the man's head in the King C. Gillette ad?

5. What happens that makes Captain McAvoy turn his tug abruptly?

(see the answer key)

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