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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could this chapter represent?
(a) Someone changing the topic of a conversation due to its uncomfortable nature.
(b) Someone meeting someone for the first time.
(c) Someone planning for wedding.
(d) Someone expressing his love for another.

2. How does Andy adopt this pattern?
(a) He arrives at five minutes to one for every ten o'clock appointment.
(b) He arrives early.
(c) He reschedules.
(d) He cancels.

3. Why does New York not have time to have an aesthetic?
(a) It is ugly and dirty.
(b) The people are rude and loud.
(c) It takes a person half a day to go either downtown or uptown.
(d) There is very little art in New York.

4. Why might this chapter be so short?
(a) Perhaps Andy did not know what to say.
(b) Perhaps Andy did not care about the subject matter.
(c) Perhaps Andy enjoyed the artistic allusion he created here.
(d) Perhaps Andy wanted to make his book shorter.

5. What is significant about the abrupt style in a book filled with rambling statements?
(a) It mimics the sometimes abrupt nature of death.
(b) It is unnatural.
(c) It is less important than the rest of the book.
(d) It shows how much more important this chapter is than the others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Andy's fear prevent him from ever being able to do?

2. Andy also believes that a person can make a conscious choice to do what, regarding his time?

3. Andy's musings about the concept of time range from what?

4. Andy himself tends to be fascinated by people as opposed to what?

5. How does this concept come to Andy?

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