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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 is Tod Friendly's car perched against when the narrator sees the policeman put Tod in his car?
(a) A building.
(b) A fire hydrant.
(c) A boulder.
(d) Another car.

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

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

4. What does Tod Friendly see when he looks in the mirror?
(a) A corpse's face.
(b) An old face full of fear.
(c) The face of a mental patient.
(d) A young face full of optimism.

5. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?
(a) It fades away in time.
(b) It never gets strong enough that he speaks to them.
(c) It gets stronger until Tod Friendly asks them to sleep over.
(d) It gets stronger until they find out about his past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the narrator control?

2. What does the narrator wish he could say to Irene?

3. Where does Tod Friendly work after (in the narrator's experience) he is demoted?

4. Who is the narrator?

5. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?

(see the answer key)

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