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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 185 – 228; [From the ceiling…]; Paradoxical Effects (Jane).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator say Jonathan married his first wife?
(a) When they both graduated high school.
(b) When they finished their doctorates.
(c) When they got unexpectedly pregnant.
(d) After they had each lost a parent.

2. Who has just left Adam, when his chapter opens?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) Amber.
(d) Darren.

3. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
(a) Debate techniques.
(b) Glossolalia.
(c) Music.
(d) Speech shadowing.

4. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?
(a) Her lectures on homosexuality.
(b) Her taking Jonathan away from Rachel.
(c) Her promotion to department head.
(d) Her book about abuse.

5. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?
(a) A zoo.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) A police station.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darren’s mother complain about?

2. What was Adam advocating in the semi-final debate?

3. What did Jonathan specialize in at the Topeka Foundation?

4. What did Fred Phelps’ family call Jane Gordon?

5. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?

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