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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the author's two short-lived jobs in the visit he described in Chapter 14?
(a) Movie theater and bowling alley.
(b) Movie theater and waiter.
(c) Waiter and bowling alley.
(d) Waiter and cabana boy.

2. What was the author in constant fear of in Chapter 4?
(a) Being in the dark.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being left alone.
(d) Being eaten.

3. How was the author treated by one of the teachers at Southbury?
(a) With hostility.
(b) With loathing.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With adoration.

4. How long did the pianist live in the author's mom's apartment?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 9 years.

5. What is described at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) How the author left home.
(b) How the author injured the pianist.
(c) How the pianist hurt Dagmar.
(d) How the relationship of the pianist and Dagmar ended.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the metaphor of multiple floors in his school suggest?

2. What did the author's coworker Sid do?

3. Where did the author work in Chapter 15?

4. What was significant about what the friend said who patronized him in Chapter 13?

5. What was the author awkwardly questioned about in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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