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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 – Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator claim to listen to recordings of when he has trouble sleeping in Chapter 1?
(a) Sheep baa-ing.
(b) The Watergate tapes.
(c) Ocean waves.
(d) Slot machines playing.

2. When did the Northridge quake occur that collapsed the roof of the school auditorium where the narrator demonstrated castrating a calf?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1990.

3. How old was the narrator when he wrote his first scientific paper called "Passenger Seating Tendencies by Race and Gender"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Nine.

4. What does the narrator describe as Hominy's favorite room at the BDSM club in Chapter 6?
(a) The Bastille Room.
(b) The Red Room.
(c) The Blue Room.
(d) The Black Chamber.

5. Foy Cheshire's home is described as sitting just off what road in Chapter 22?
(a) Martin Luther King Throughway.
(b) Ventura Drive.
(c) Roosevelt Drive.
(d) Mulholland Drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 18 refers to a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere?

2. For what college was the narrator's father the interim dean?

3. What is describe as "the hillbilly neighborhood about ten miles north of Dickens" in Chapter 14 (180)?

4. What nickname does the narrator say he was called after a spelling bee when he was eleven?

5. By what name does Hampton Fiske refer to the narrator's father as in Chapter 24?

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