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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Playing the Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the psychiatrist say about addicts?
(a) They are not intelligent.
(b) They are in misery.
(c) They have no sense of limits.
(d) They are lonely.

2. What does Goolrick do to steady his nerves that evening?
(a) Drinks.
(b) Does drugs.
(c) Drives.
(d) Sleeps.

3. To what does Goolrick compare his time at the hospital?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The first few weeks of college.
(d) The first weeks of grade school.

4. What happened often to the boys when they played a game down by the river with rocks?
(a) They would be tattled on by the girls.
(b) They would be arrested.
(c) They would die.
(d) They would accidentally drop rocks on their heads.

5. What does Goolrick inadvertently put on his mother's wound?
(a) Mouthwash.
(b) Icy Hot.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Neosporin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Goolrick's parents summon him home one Christmas to scream at him?

2. What disease does Goolrick's mother have?

3. What primary emotion does Goolrick find himself feeling following his father's death?

4. Why did brother's wife hate Goolrick?

5. What does brother ask about when he finally wakes from his coma?

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