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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Chapters 2 and 3 examples of in relation to most autobiographies?
(a) A deeper insight to other people's feelings.
(b) It is of the author's persepctive.
(c) A more personal narrative over a braoder one.
(d) A broader narrative over a personal one.

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

3. What was the name of the person who moved in with the author after Dagmar left?
(a) Bobby Nell.
(b) Nelly Smell.
(c) Nell Smith.
(d) Nelson Smidge.

4. Where did Dagmar go in Chapter 11?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Ft. Lauderdale.
(d) Ireland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season did Chapter 9 take place?

2. What disrupted the author's surge of sexual energy on this particular day in Chapter 10?

3. Who told the author he lost, at the game in Chapter 6?

4. How old was Alison when the family left New York?

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

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