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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through For Esme - with Love and Squalor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jimmy Jimmereeno die?
(a) He dies of cancer.
(b) He dies of old age.
(c) He dies in WWII battle.
(d) He gets run over by a car.

2. Where does the narrator think Esme should wear her watch instead of her wrist?
(a) Around her waist.
(b) Around her leg.
(c) Around her head.
(d) Around her neck.

3. What is Muriel Glass doing when the call comes through from the hotel operator?
(a) Brushing her teeth.
(b) Tweezing a mole hair.
(c) Painting her nails.
(d) Ironing her clothes.

4. What does Eloise think all women tell their husbands?
(a) That they need to work two jobs.
(b) Nothing honest.
(c) How much they need them.
(d) How much they love them.

5. What does Selena's brother offer for Ginnie to eat?
(a) A chicken sandwich.
(b) A piece of cheese.
(c) Tomato soup.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Laughing Man subsist on?

2. How long does Ginnie keep an Easter chick after it dies?

3. What does Sybil complain to Seymour about when meeting him on the beach?

4. Where does the main character of the story, The Laughing Man, get lost?

5. How many keys are on the key chain that Boo Boo gives to Lionel?

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