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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 is Roy's favorite pastime?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Fishing.

2. What enables Peter to travel to India for a year in fulfillment of a lifelong dream?
(a) A grant.
(b) An unexpected legacy from Grandawma.
(c) A check from Hugh.
(d) The sale of a book he authored on Buddhism.

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

4. What unexpected event ends Irwin's career as a track star?
(a) A knee injury.
(b) A hand injury.
(c) An eye injury.
(d) A shoulder injury.

5. Why does Hugh build a shed behind their Camas home?
(a) To have a place for his tools.
(b) To have a place to practice pitching.
(c) To create excess storage for his growing family.
(d) To have a place for woodworking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Peter quote during his speech at the post season baseball banquet?

2. Where is Grandawma from?

3. Whom does Hugh telegram for help when he realizes he will not be able to free Irwin on his own?

4. How does Irwin lose his rain slicker in Book Two?

5. What does Peter call his mental state while awaiting a pitch?

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