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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Part 2 (pages 143-156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does the narrator say George has always hated in Chapter 1?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Home repair.

2. What does Howard describe his father doing all of the time in Howard's childhood in Chapter 3?
(a) Writing law articles.
(b) Working in his laboratory.
(c) Composing sermons.
(d) Reading history books.

3. As Howard stands in the silt of the pond outlet in the woods in Chapter 3, the narrator describes the sticks and branches on the pond bed as feeling like what to him?
(a) Bones.
(b) Engine parts.
(c) Stones.
(d) Snakes.

4. Where is George's workshop located?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In town.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the backyard.

5. What author did the hermit whose tooth Howard pulls attend college with, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to a didactic story which illustrates instructive lessons or principles?

2. What is Howard's mother doing when he returns from the woods after having his first seizure in Chapter 3?

3. What is Howard's father's profession?

4. What type of vehicle does Howard drive for a living seventy years before George's death?

5. What kind of liquor does Howard keep a few bottles of in his secret drawer as a tradesman?

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