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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Oldest Living Chicago Cub.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the hitch-hiker Ray and JD Salinger pick up?
(a) Ray Salinger.
(b) Archie Graham.
(c) Jerry Kinsella.
(d) Joseph Graham.

2. While staying in a hotel in Minneapolis, what does JD Salinger suggest the three of them do?
(a) Break into a ballpark.
(b) Go out for a walk.
(c) Go to a bar to watch a baseball game on TV.
(d) Go swimming.

3. Ray calls Annie from their brief stay at a motel. What does Annie tell Ray?
(a) That there hasn't been a baseball game since he left.
(b) That Karin lost her first tooth.
(c) That the corn is crowning.
(d) The Mark is trying to buy the farm.

4. In "The Oldest Living Chicago Cub", while Ray, Salinger and Graham are making breakfast, who calls them on the phone?
(a) Mark.
(b) Salinger's son.
(c) Gypsy.
(d) Richard.

5. How does Ray determine what year it is as he is talking with Doc Graham?
(a) He guesses the year by looking at the movie theater's marquee.
(b) He asks him about last year's World Series.
(c) He scrapes mud of a license plate to check the year's registration tag.
(d) He sees a political sign in a store window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ray's gun when he convinces Salinger to join him?

2. What position does Archie Graham play when Shoeless Joe asks him to be on the field?

3. What is the second section of the field that Ray completes?

4. What compliment does Shoeless Joe give Ray about the field?

5. Where is Eddie Scissons buried?

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