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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 job?
(a) Police man.
(b) Tennis player.
(c) Garbage man.
(d) Doctor.

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

3. What term does the narrator coin to describe the act of eating?
(a) "Vomitorium."
(b) "Celebration of food."
(c) "Feasting."
(d) "Going to the restaurant."

4. How does the narrator believe people are treated at crisis centers?
(a) People are asked questions about how satisfied they are with their care.
(b) Tod Friendly would heal them by operating on them.
(c) Mothers would arrive kicking and screaming but leave rested and happier.
(d) Pimps would heal women with their fists.

5. In the narrator's experience, where is Tod Friendly when he begins to touch himself?
(a) In the supermarket.
(b) At home.
(c) At the tennis court.
(d) In the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Tod Friendly's body over time?

3. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?

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

5. How does Tod Friendly walk in the door to his house after he leaves the hospital?

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