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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 does the old man tell Tod Friendly after the narrator sees Tod drive his car away from the fire hydrant?
(a) "I need a prescription for pain."
(b) "It is your turn to discard."
(c) "Your driving days are over."
(d) "I know you from somewhere."

2. What is Tod Friendly's job?
(a) Police man.
(b) Garbage man.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Tennis player.

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

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

5. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds love letters?
(a) At his job.
(b) In the mail box.
(c) In the trash.
(d) In the old house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about doctors?

2. What day follows October 1 in the narrator's experience?

3. How does the narrator believe people are treated at crisis centers?

4. Who is the narrator?

5. Who is the president of the United States at the beginning of the book?

(see the answer key)

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