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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Five, The Brothers K.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname does Everett give the Psalms in Boot Two?
(a) Tall tales.
(b) Betty Crocker.
(c) Preacher's propaganda.
(d) Dinosaur dictums.

2. What action causes Irwin to be sent back home from Vietnam in a straitjacket, heavily sedated?
(a) He attacks his captain with a tube of toothpaste.
(b) He claims to be seeing ghosts of Vietnamese and American soldiers.
(c) He is caught sneaking food to orphaned Vietnamese children.
(d) He begins hitting himself.

3. What does Freddy name her dog?
(a) Ghandi.
(b) Roo.
(c) Suncracker.
(d) Lacey.

4. What fellow draft dodger advises Everett about a potential return to the United States?
(a) Yulia.
(b) Natasha.
(c) Stoner Steve.
(d) Nelson.

5. What does Peter major in at Harvard?
(a) History.
(b) Comparative religion studies.
(c) Geography.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Peter's reaction to the film shown at school about bombs?

2. How many pages is the letter Everett writes to Tasha and mails to her grandmother's address?

3. What book contains the story that Peter tells his brother at the hedge in Book Two?

4. What does Everett call Hugh's fastball?

5. Who encourages Laura to spy on her sons and go through their rooms looking for incriminating evidence?

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