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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10, 'Maybe They Had It Right in France Because Getting My Head Lopped Off by a Guillotine Would Have Been Easier' and 'Earthquakes, Nuclear Winter, and the End of Life as We Know It, over Linguini'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is very unfriendly to the Schwa in his first appearance and tells his friends that the Schwa is almost invisible and that people forget about him?
(a) Lexie.
(b) Ira.
(c) Antsy.
(d) Howie.

2. According to Lexie in Chapter 9, who should start being her escort?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Howie.
(c) Wendell Tiggor.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

3. What breaks off the dummy when Antsy and his friends throw it off a bridge in their first experiment?
(a) The hand.
(b) The arm.
(c) The foot.
(d) The head.

4. What do Antsy and his friends intend to do with the plastic dummy when they meet up in Chapter 3?
(a) Try to saw it in half.
(b) Set fire to it.
(c) Put it in a garbage disposal.
(d) Wrap it in firecrackers.

5. Where do the boys meet to discuss the Schwa in Chapter 2?
(a) The library.
(b) Howie's house.
(c) A city park.
(d) Antsy's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator in The Schwa Was Here?

2. Old Man Crawley is famous for an incident in which he took revenge on children for_________.

3. Old Man Crawley tells Antsy and the Schwa that they will have to work off their debt for breaking into his house by doing what chore?

4. What disability does Lexie have in the novel?

5. Who suggests experimenting with the Schwa in order to quantify the Schwa effect in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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