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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Here There Is No Why.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the other doctors feel about John Young?
(a) They admire his virility.
(b) They are inspired by him.
(c) They are disgusted by him.
(d) They distrust him.

2. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?
(a) By hitchhiking.
(b) By truck.
(c) By motorcycle.
(d) In troop carriers.

3. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Rome.
(c) Salerno.
(d) Bologna.

4. Who is the president of the United States at the beginning of the book?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) Gerald Ford.

5. What is Tod Friendly's car perched against when the narrator sees the policeman put Tod in his car?
(a) A boulder.
(b) Another car.
(c) A fire hydrant.
(d) A building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are conditions like in Italy when (in the narrator's experience) Hamilton de Souza lands there?

2. Where would John Young have his amorous encounters with women?

3. What does Tod Friendly think the orderlies did to him at the accident scene?

4. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?

5. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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