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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the Fish described?
(a) As friendly and laid-back.
(b) As excited and optimistic.
(c) As anxious and terrified.
(d) As slimy and shifty.

2. What does Roy say his father uses in every sentence in the letters he write to him?
(a) The word "and."
(b) Exclamation point.
(c) All capital letters.
(d) All lower-case letters.

3. Who is Molly?
(a) A friend of Roy from home.
(b) A doctor who is always anxious.
(c) An attractive nurse.
(d) A gomer.

4. Who does Roy say was regarded as illiterate and underprivileged when really they were literate and privileged?
(a) Berry.
(b) The Fat Man.
(c) Chuck.
(d) The policeman.

5. What does Roy use to remember medical facts?
(a) Mnenomic device.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Acronym.
(d) Paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berry react to Roy when he jokingly talks about the gomers?

2. The lowest rung on the hospital hierarchy is who?

3. What does it mean to BUFF someone?

4. Who was the president at the time in which the novel was set?

5. Roy says the countryside is so lush that the birds can't eat all of the what?

(see the answer key)

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