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

2. What happens when Ed and the person who takes him out for a drink part ways?
(a) Ed's wife yells at him.
(b) The bartender throws Ed out.
(c) Ed gets into a bar fight.
(d) The guy sticks Ed with the check.

3. How does Ellen's mother think that she and her father feel about her?
(a) That they adore her.
(b) That they want to send her to France.
(c) That they want her to work.
(d) That they hate her.

4. When Bud is on the Brooklyn Bridge, what does it sound like when a car goes by?
(a) A room full of crickets.
(b) A shaken banjo.
(c) A bucket of nickels.
(d) A pile of piano wires.

5. What turns Bill Ingersoll from an atheist to a Methodist?
(a) Getting hit by a train.
(b) Seeing a ghost.
(c) Taking absinthe.
(d) A flash of lightning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song is Ed Thatcher trying to pick out on the piano?

2. Where are John and Elaine going so that she can feel gay?

3. What is the name of Jimmy's aunt?

4. Captain McAvoy is in the pilothouse of which tugboat?

5. Where does Bud Korpenning want to go in New York?

(see the answer key)

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