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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 narrator wish he could say to Irene?
(a) "I'm true to you."
(b) "I'm sorry for cheating."
(c) "You don't deserve to be happy."
(d) "Get away from me."

2. Why is the narrator shocked when Irene comes to the house?
(a) She is being beaten up by a pimp.
(b) She walks forward toward the house.
(c) She is crying because the garden was in disrepair.
(d) She tells Tod Friendly that she is in love with him.

3. How do people speak in the narrator's experience?
(a) In code.
(b) In gibberish.
(c) In languages the narrator does not understand.
(d) Backwards.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator believe food comes from?

2. What can the narrator control?

3. What sport does Tod Friendly take up?

4. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?

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

(see the answer key)

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