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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Nine Day's Wonder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hartly want to go for vacation?
(a) Virginia Beach.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Upstate New York.
(d) The Maine woods.

2. What does Stan wish would happen to his college before he gets back?
(a) That it would be bought by his father.
(b) That it would burn down.
(c) That it would fall into the ocean.
(d) That they would graduate him before he completes his studies.

3. As the building is burning a man tells Thatcher what about the fire's origin?
(a) A man was smoking in bed when it was started.
(b) Someone's cooking caused it.
(c) It was started by an incendiary device.
(d) A molotove coctail started the fire.

4. What color is Jimmy Herf's wallpaper?
(a) The dead green of Poland Water bottles.
(b) The ochre yellow of stale beer.
(c) Cold as ice blue.
(d) The pink of the evening sky.

5. Who is George Baldwin's wife?
(a) Cassie.
(b) Maisie.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Cecily.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Jimmy called by his friends when he throws them out of his room for making him fight?

3. What does Jimmy call his mother?

4. What part of his car is Stan having fixed as Jimmy stands waiting in the door of the reeking garage?

5. Where does Jimmy Herf graduate from college?

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