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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ghosts, pgs. 211-232.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Quinn's book of poetry?
(a) Unfinished Business.
(b) The Business of Poetry.
(c) Risky Business.
(d) Business Verses.

3. How does the man wearing the Halloween mask manage to escape from Blue?
(a) He runs into a crowded train station.
(b) He climbs a fence.
(c) He leaps aboard a bus.
(d) He disappears into an alleyway.

4. What is the name of the film about the private eye starring Robert Mitchum that Blue goes to see?
(a) From Here to Eternity.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Out of the Past.
(d) Blast from the Past.

5. What does Stillman do with the object that he examines during his walks in Chapter 8 of the novel?
(a) He writes something about them in a red notebook.
(b) He throws them in the garbage.
(c) He sells them on eBay.
(d) He puts them in his pockets.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what time does Stillman begin his daily walks?

2. The images of which two historical figures are inspirational to Blue when he visits the churchyard?

3. What is the name of the hotel where Stillman stays?

4. What is the name of the science of reading bumps on the skull that Whitman believed in?

5. What happens each time Auster tries to reach Virginia Stillman by telephone in Chapter 11?

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