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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Note at the End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does Thurber visit one summer?
(a) The West Indies.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Poland.

2. Who does Mrs. Doody think Father is?
(a) Faust.
(b) Ted Bundy.
(c) Antichrist.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. Why can't Mother use the phone?
(a) They need change.
(b) Someone has cut the line.
(c) They forgot to pay the phone bill.
(d) It is downstairs.

4. Who scalds her finger?
(a) Dora Gedd.
(b) Gertie Straub.
(c) Belle Giddon.
(d) Charley Betts.

5. Which member of Vashti's love triangle proves to be imaginary?
(a) The footman.
(b) The policeman.
(c) The step father.
(d) The fireman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jeannie deliver her seventh puppy?

2. Who does grandfather think is invading Columbus?

3. What does Roy say must have happened to his father?

4. What Joseph Conrad character does Thurber reference in this section?

5. What does Thurber say he lacks the proper perspective to do in his middle years?

(see the answer key)

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