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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. Ira has ambitions to become a _________ when he grows up.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Senator.
(c) Director.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What makes the Schwa's and Antsy's job for Old Man Crawley particularly time-consuming in Chapter 6?
(a) The dogs get tangled up with each other.
(b) They can only walk one dog at a time.
(c) The dogs need to be walked ten miles.
(d) The ground is covered with snow.

3. On what day of the week do a bunch of kids gather outside Crawley's apartment to watch the Schwa's dare in Chapter 5?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Sunday.

4. What is Antsy's father the most passionate about in the novel?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Banking.
(d) Poetry.

5. Lexie can tell when the Schwa is present more than others in the novel for what reason?
(a) His watch ticks very loudly.
(b) She hears his heartbeat.
(c) He holds her hand.
(d) She hears him breathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Schwa invites Antsy over for dinner and shows him a clip he got that was supposedly _________.

2. What does the Schwa collect?

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

4. 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?

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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