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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Skyscraper.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the only friend Harland has in the family?
(a) Jimmy's Aunt Emily.
(b) His favorite grandmother.
(c) Jimmy's mother, Lily.
(d) His son.

3. What did Bud's father do to him when he was a kid?
(a) Sold him into slavery.
(b) Revered him.
(c) Locked him in the closet.
(d) Beat him.

4. Where does Jimmy Herf graduate from college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) NYU.
(d) Yale.

5. How does Jimmy see Ellen at the restaurant in Gare de Lyon?
(a) As a typical mother.
(b) As a porcelain figure under bellglass.
(c) As a warm rose with thorns.
(d) As a towering skyscraper.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Jimmy, who was the man killed in the war named Jaures?

2. What does Cassie think of Ellen?

3. What does Billy' think of the X-ray treatment?

4. Where does Jimmy take Harland to lunch?

5. What does Gus say is the ruination of many a good man?

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