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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ghosts, pgs. 185-210.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Quinn and the counterman at the luncheonette commonly converse about?
(a) The weather.
(b) Literature.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

2. The images of which two historical figures are inspirational to Blue when he visits the churchyard?
(a) John Adams and Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Henry Ward Beecher and Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Henry David Thoreau and George Washington Carver.
(d) George Washington and Walt Whitman.

3. In their first conversation in Chapter 9, what does Stillman tell Quinn his project is?
(a) Inventing a new language.
(b) Building the Tower of Babel.
(c) Collecting street trash.
(d) Drawing maps of the city.

4. What is Quinn wearing when he first begins writing notes about the Stillman case in Chapter 5?
(a) Swim trunks.
(b) A blue shirt.
(c) Nothing; he is naked.
(d) His pajamas.

5. Where does the second meeting between Quinn and Stillman take place in Chapter 9?
(a) The Santa Maria Cafe.
(b) The Titanic Hotel.
(c) The Pinta Hotel.
(d) The Mayflower Cafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stillman do with the object that he examines during his walks in Chapter 8 of the novel?

2. According to the information in Chapter 4, who was the Scottish sailor considered to be the model for Robinson Crusoe?

3. How does the man wearing the Halloween mask manage to escape from Blue?

4. While living in the alleyway in Chapter 12, at what time does Quinn do his grocery shopping each morning?

5. At the end of Chapter 13, what is the relationship between the narrator and Paul Auster?

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