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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jimmy's mother tells him not to eat his ice cream too fast or he will get what?
(a) Sick.
(b) Brain freeze.
(c) A cold.
(d) The collywobbles.

2. Why is Ed Thatcher at the hospital?
(a) He works there.
(b) He has been hit by a car.
(c) His wife has had a baby.
(d) His mother is dying.

3. Where is the yellow-painted drugstore that the man at the end of Chapter 1 goes to?
(a) Canal Street.
(b) 42nd Street.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Off Broadway.

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

5. What game does Maisie ask Jimmy if he knows how to play?
(a) Jacks.
(b) Five Hundred.
(c) Rummy.
(d) Go Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy inherit from his mother's estate?

2. What does Ellen call her friend Alice when she won't go down an obscure little path with her in the park?

3. Where has Bud come from?

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

5. Where is Bud sitting when he reads the newspaper and the other men there are playing chess?

(see the answer key)

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