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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard's wife feels that Dickie may help Richard _______________________.
(a) learn how to speak French.
(b) remember his way around problems.
(c) get some joy in his life.
(d) be more spiritual.

2. What does Richard see from the air that the adult brain says it could not reasonably survive?
(a) Bear.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Geese.
(d) Deer.

3. What promise does Richard not remember making to his younger self?
(a) To get married.
(b) To write a book.
(c) To travel the world.
(d) To get a Master's Degree.

4. What does Leslie want Richard to tell Dickie that next time he sees him?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She admires him.
(d) She wants to talk to him.

5. The cracked dry earth where Dickie lives symbolizes _______________________.
(a) financial restrictions.
(b) lack of creativity.
(c) open space for ideas.
(d) the desert of Richard's childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Richard when his brother died?

2. Richard explains what he knows to Dickie by using _________________ metaphors.

3. What is Dickie's reaction when Richard's friends want him to do something he does not want to do in Chapter 17?

4. Richard encourages Dickie to make room for _______________________.

5. Richard says that home to him is _______________________.

(see the answer key)

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