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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 many forward gears does the narrator think Tod Friendly's car has?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

2. Where does Tod Friendly work after (in the narrator's experience) he is demoted?
(a) Cafeteria duty.
(b) Guard duty.
(c) Garbage detail.
(d) Real estate.

3. When does the narrator feel that he and Tod Friendly have things in common?
(a) When Tod Friendly is talking to Irene.
(b) When Tod Friendly is dreaming about a person in a lab coat.
(c) When Tod Friendly is looking at women.
(d) When Tod Friendly is taking money from prostitutes.

4. How does the narrator feel about doctors?
(a) He loves them.
(b) He pretends not to know them.
(c) He recognizes them from Auschwitz.
(d) He hates them.

5. With whom does John Young meet before his voyage to Europe?
(a) An old Spanish Man.
(b) "The Agent."
(c) Hamilton de Souza.
(d) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hamilton de Souza pay the old Spanish man?

2. What does Odilo Unverdorben's wife think about the work Odilo is doing at the camp?

3. When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience?

4. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi uses to bring dead patients back to life?

5. Why are the people on the ship to America happy?

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