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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 197.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the reasons the narrator gives for finding people confusing?
(a) People speak different languages.
(b) People use too many adjectives when they speak.
(c) People use metaphors when they speak.
(d) People do not speak loud enough.

2. Why does the narrator say he does not like new places?
(a) Because they are filled with new people.
(b) Because they smell funny.
(c) Because they are different than the places he is already used to.
(d) Because he sees everything.

3. What memory of his mother does the narrator recall in Chapter 113?
(a) Her reading his favorite book to him.
(b) Her sickness.
(c) Their holiday in Cornwall.
(d) Their time together at home.

4. Where did Uncle Terry encounter a ghost?
(a) In a shoe shop in a shopping center.
(b) In a bakery.
(c) In a friend's home.
(d) In the sancutary of a church.

5. How many illustrations are in Chapter 181?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not one of the names the narrator gave to the entity that would form if you joined Orion, Lepus, Taurus, or Gemini?

2. How does the narrator view his father after he reveals that he killed the dog?

3. Why doesn't the narrator think he could make his story into a short novel?

4. What term does the narrator give to the phenomenon in which eyes move from point to point without really seeing what is in between the two points?

5. In Chapter 89, what Joseph Conrad book does Siobhan tell the narrator about?

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