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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: You Have to be Cruel to be Kind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Tod Friendly's body over time?
(a) He spends more and more time in the bathroom.
(b) He gets younger, stronger, and more virile.
(c) He gets older and more infirm.
(d) He spends less and less time masturbating.

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 she loves him.
(c) She is telling Tod Friendly goodbye.
(d) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows his true identity.

3. Where does the narrator believe food comes from?
(a) The old people.
(b) The women at the supermarket.
(c) The supermarket.
(d) The garbage can.

4. How does Tod Friendly walk in the door to his house after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He walks in sideways.
(b) He has to climb over some rubble.
(c) He walks in backwards.
(d) He limps because of the pain in his ankle.

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 building.
(d) A fire hydrant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people speak in the narrator's experience?

2. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?

3. How does the narrator feel about eating?

4. What sport does Tod Friendly take up?

5. In the narrator's experience, where is Tod Friendly when he begins to touch himself?

(see the answer key)

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