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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) "I know you from somewhere."
(c) "It is your turn to discard."
(d) "Your driving days are over."

2. How does the narrator feel about doctors?
(a) He recognizes them from Auschwitz.
(b) He hates them.
(c) He loves them.
(d) He pretends not to know them.

3. What does the narrator think Tod Friendly would do at the food store?
(a) Shave and shower.
(b) Return his food and get money for it.
(c) Buy food with coupons.
(d) Buy food with his money.

4. What can the narrator control?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Where Tod Friendly's eyes go.
(c) What Tod Friendly says.
(d) What Tod Friendly eats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whom does Tod Friendly get a letter every year?

3. When does the narrator feel that he and Tod Friendly have things in common?

4. What term does the narrator coin to describe the act of eating?

5. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds Irene's love letters?

(see the answer key)

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