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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 believe the weather is always good?
(a) New York.
(b) Munich.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Main Street, USA.

2. What kind of women does John Young prefer?
(a) Women with diseases.
(b) Women with children.
(c) Women who smoke and drink.
(d) Women with husbands.

3. What are conditions like in Italy when (in the narrator's experience) Hamilton de Souza lands there?
(a) Disarray and poverty.
(b) Prosperity and contentment.
(c) Industrialization and expansion.
(d) War and chaos.

4. How does the narrator feel about eating?
(a) He is disgusted.
(b) He is always hungry.
(c) He is afraid of his food.
(d) It fills him with pain.

5. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reverses their words.
(b) He reads their lips.
(c) He deciphers the code in which people speak.
(d) He translates their words from another language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think Uncle Pepi's work is?

2. What does Tod Friendly dream about repeatedly?

3. Where does the narrator get his mail from?

4. How does the narrator feel about Uncle Pepi?

5. What does the narrator think Tod Friendly does in church?

(see the answer key)

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