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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 10 narrate?
(a) A dream of the author's.
(b) A trip to the zoo.
(c) A school day.
(d) A memory of the author's.

3. What was the author awkwardly questioned about in Chapter 10?
(a) His sex life.
(b) His dreams and ambitions in life.
(c) His home life.
(d) His deepest secrets.

4. What other memory does the author also narrate at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) A frightening encounter with Jean's alcoholic brother.
(b) Going fishing.
(c) A near death experience.
(d) A conversation he had with his mom.

5. Where did the author go the day he parted with his friend in Chapter 3?
(a) His paternal grandmother's.
(b) His sister, Alison's.
(c) His maternal grandmother's.
(d) His dad's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the author and his family traveling at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What does the prologue offer the reader?

3. In Chapter 3, who said "I feel like I've been on this trip all my life"?

4. According to Chapter 1, what does a first person biography offer?

5. What does the author recall about the conditions of the person he remembers in Chapter 1?

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