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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Summer of Our Suicides.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did mother often eat for breakfast?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Cottage cheese.
(d) Pie.

2. What does Goolrick admit his mother never showed him?
(a) Love.
(b) Patience.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Gentleness.

3. What medical situation is occurring with his brother's wife at the time of his illness?
(a) She has Fibromyalsia.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is dying of breast cancer.
(d) She is in labor.

4. What did grandfather do in response to Dodo's problem?
(a) He started drinking.
(b) He stopped smoking.
(c) He started smoking.
(d) He stopped drinking.

5. What was one of the rules for Goolrick's mother?
(a) She never drank water.
(b) She never drank or served rum.
(c) She never ate meat.
(d) She never served rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did most people start smoking in Virginia, according to Goolrick?

2. What did Miss Nell do for herself each morning when she woke?

3. How long does Goolrick spend in the hospital?

4. What does Goolrick begin to carry with him?

5. What is wrong with Aunt Dodo?

(see the answer key)

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