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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is part of the managing editor's job?
(a) Doing the police rounds.
(b) Installing heating for the building.
(c) Sub-editing.
(d) Doing the advertisements.

2. Which of Quoyle's jobs are listed on the first page of the novel?
(a) Rope-maker and knot-tester, cab driver, third-rate journalist.
(b) Bell-hop at a hotel, third-rate journalist, traveling salesman.
(c) Distributer of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, third-rate journalist.
(d) Greeting card writer, bell-hop at a hotel, all-night clerk at a convenience store.

3. What complicates the family's stay at the motel?
(a) They become locked in their room.
(b) The aunt gets drunk.
(c) Quoyle accidentally locks himself in the bathroom.
(d) People complain about the dog.

4. How does the reader know Aunt Agnis doesn't like vinyl cladding?
(a) She says she wouldn't cross the road to buy it.
(b) She makes a Bronx cheer when it is mentioned.
(c) She says she wouldn't have it on her coffin.
(d) She abuses the salesman.

5. What group does Reverend Stain belong to?
(a) Opus Dei.
(b) Dignified Burial Society.
(c) Dignified Exit.
(d) The Freemasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel provides the inspiration for Borogrove, Nutbeem's boat?

2. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.

3. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?

4. What injuries did Dennis sustain during the storm crisis on The Polar Grinder?

5. What is the subject of the story Quoyle tells his daughters?

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