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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 Tod Friendly do when he shaves?
(a) He does not shave; he is shaved by the hospital orderlies.
(b) He reads the morning paper.
(c) He talks to himself about his dreams.
(d) He refuses to look at himself in the mirror.

2. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?
(a) Tod tells him.
(b) Tod understands when the doctors speak to him.
(c) Tod reads the foreign newspapers.
(d) Tod dreams of it sometimes.

3. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds Irene's love letters?
(a) In the fire.
(b) In the trash.
(c) In the mail.
(d) In the drawer.

4. How does the narrator feel about Irene?
(a) He is afraid of her.
(b) He is disappointed by her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He is cool to her affection.

5. Where does Tod Friendly meet many of his girlfriends?
(a) At work.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) On the street.
(d) In the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tod Friendly's job?

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

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

4. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds love letters?

5. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?

(see the answer key)

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