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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. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Orderlies take him on a stretcher and put him on the ground.
(b) To the tennis court, where he plays tennis.
(c) He goes home to Main Street USA.
(d) Doctors take him to Auschwitz, where he is killed.

2. When does the narrator feel that he and Tod Friendly have things in common?
(a) When Tod Friendly is talking to Irene.
(b) When Tod Friendly is looking at women.
(c) When Tod Friendly is taking money from prostitutes.
(d) When Tod Friendly is dreaming about a person in a lab coat.

3. What sport does Tod Friendly take up?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Tennis
(d) Baseball.

4. What does Tod Friendly tell Irene when she asks him about his secret?
(a) "One day I'll tell you."
(b) "You don't want to know."
(c) "It's none of your business."
(d) "I'll tell you as soon as we get married."

5. How does the narrator feel at the beginning of the book?
(a) Strong and young.
(b) Completely paralyzed.
(c) Old and full of fear.
(d) He has an ankle pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tod Friendly dream about repeatedly?

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

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

4. What does the narrator see upon waking at the beginning of the book?

5. Where does Tod Friendly live in the beginning of the book?

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