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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Persistence of Song.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 accidentally drop rocks on their heads.
(d) They would die.

2. What second operation did brother have that could have rendered him "a zombie" according to mother?
(a) A heart transplant.
(b) A severing of the right and left brain.
(c) A frontal lobotomy.
(d) A removal of the left brain.

3. What does Mother do after Goolrick goes to college?
(a) Kills his lover.
(b) Befriends his lover.
(c) Tells his father he is gay.
(d) Betrays his lover.

4. What caused Goolrick to end his relationship with his female lover?
(a) She wanted to marry.
(b) She was an addict.
(c) She was violent.
(d) She became obsessive.

5. What happened to brother at college?
(a) He was kicked out.
(b) He graduated.
(c) He was valedictorian.
(d) He was killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judy collect?

2. What singer did brother sing to Goolrick when he claimed he had broken his new stereo?

3. What does the psychiatrist say about addicts?

4. Why was town an exciting place?

5. For which holidays were pageants held?

(see the answer key)

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