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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a description made by the author about the pianist?
(a) Asexual.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Nasty.
(d) Vindictive.

2. Where was the experimental boarding school the author describes in Chapter 1?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Jacksonville, Fl.
(c) England.
(d) Ft. Lauderdale.

3. How old was the author when his father died?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 15 years old.
(c) 14 years old.
(d) 12 years old.

4. What does the author recall about the conditions of the person he remembers in Chapter 1?
(a) That he was poor.
(b) That he was rich.
(c) That he was a stable, reliable man.
(d) That he was in and out of mental hospitals during his childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author feel is necessary to be interrupted?

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

3. Which of the following does the author NOT describe about the place he stayed at, in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 5, who was the pianist jealous over?

5. When did the peak of the pianist and Jean's relationship occur?

(see the answer key)

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