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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Beatles' song does the narrator describe singing in the bar with Man and Bon in Chapter 1?
(a) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
(b) "Help!"
(c) "Black Bird."
(d) "Yesterday."

2. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

3. How many fingers does the narrator describe the General having lost in Chapter 1?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

4. Where does the narrator say Ms. Mori lives in Chapter 5?
(a) The Hackensack neighborhood.
(b) The Upper East Side.
(c) Skid Row.
(d) The Crenshaw neighborhood.

5. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as "the cue for the evacuation's final phase" in Chapter 5?

2. How old was the communist agent with the papers in her mouth when she was arrested?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a straight, close-fitting silk dress with a high neck?

4. Where does the narrator describe attending a wedding in Chapter 7?

5. On what day of the week does the General's store opening occur in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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