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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 199.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator use Chapter 163 to do?
(a) Explain how one of his classmates thinks.
(b) Explain why Mother thinks like she does.
(c) Explain how he learned that other people had minds.
(d) Explain a new theory of how people think.

2. Which one of the following is not one of the three conditions the narrator names as to why life on earth occurred as the result of an accident?
(a) Mutation.
(b) Replication.
(c) Heritability.
(d) Extraction.

3. What does the narrator say he can see between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door?
(a) The moon.
(b) The planet Venus.
(c) A shooting star.
(d) A constellation.

4. Who calls the narrator's name at the start of Chapter 197?
(a) Siobhan.
(b) Father.
(c) The policeman.
(d) Mother.

5. According to the narrator, what color is Gobi Aloo Sag?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words describe the demeanor of the narrator's father on the ride home from the police headquarters?

2. What did Father take to the hospital when he went to visit Mother?

3. Who approaches the narrator at the train station and asks his name and address?

4. What reason does the narrator give for having a pond at school?

5. How long did the lady in the cafe say the narrator had been in the train station?

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