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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. When does John Young sail for Europe?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1948.

2. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?
(a) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows about his affairs with other women.
(b) She is telling Tod Friendly goodbye.
(c) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows his true identity.
(d) She is telling Tod Friendly she loves him.

3. How many Hungarian Jews are at Auschwitz when Herta visits?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. What kind of sense of humor does the narrator believe John Young has?
(a) Vicious.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Slapstick.

5. Who delivers the tabloids every morning?
(a) The orderlies.
(b) Tod Friendly.
(c) The paper boy.
(d) The garbage man.

Short Answer Questions

1. When could John Young see stars in the city for first time?

2. How does Odilo Unverdorben travel through Germany?

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

4. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?

5. Why is the narrator shocked when Irene comes to the house?

(see the answer key)

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