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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aimée write a note to Mr. Joyboy on one day?
(a) A make-up rag.
(b) A travel brochure.
(c) A poem Dennis sends her.
(d) A piece of paper towel.

2. What is Mr. Joyboy's most outstanding feature?
(a) A prominent nose.
(b) A booming, grating voice.
(c) A lovely voice.
(d) A pronounced limp.

3. What does Aimée tell Mr. Joyboy about what she wrote her note on?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She thought he'd appreciate the humor of using mortuary paper.
(c) Her fiancee wrote the poem.
(d) It was all she had in her office.

4. What does Mr. Joyboy begin to do?
(a) Shake Dennis awake.
(b) Cry.
(c) Plead with Aimée not to listen to Dennis.
(d) Hit Dennis.

5. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?
(a) A cloudy view of reality.
(b) A little nightmare.
(c) A look at the rotten core of life.
(d) A slice of the good life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Mr. Slump tired?

2. What does Barlow find difficult to believe about the funeral home's structure?

3. What does Dennis plagiarize?

4. What does Dennis realize about Mr. Joyboy's ramblings?

5. What do some English expatriates talk about in the last scene?

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