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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. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Orderlies take him on a stretcher and put him on the ground.
(b) Doctors take him to Auschwitz, where he is killed.
(c) To the tennis court, where he plays tennis.
(d) He goes home to Main Street USA.

2. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?
(a) Male/female conversations.
(b) Sex.
(c) Eating.
(d) Using the bathroom.

3. How successful does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's experiments are?
(a) 10%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

4. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) World War II.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see upon waking at the beginning of the book?

2. How does the narrator learn that a woman wants to sleep with John Young?

3. How does the narrator feel about John Young's departure from New York?

4. With whom does Hamilton de Souza meet at the Vatican?

5. What is Odilo Unverdorben's reasoning for visiting prostitutes?

(see the answer key)

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