1. When does Jeremy's mother, Linda, die according to Steve in Part One, Chapter 9?
(a) Winter of 1994, Christmastime.
(b) Spring of 1994, right after St. Patrick's Day.
(c) Summer of 1993, around the 4th of July.
(d) Winter of 1984, Christmastime.

2. Where does Irene put the tract she receives from the homeless man?
(a) Inside her jacket pocket, where it stays for months.
(b) Inside a beautiful glass jewelry box.
(c) Inside "anything drawer" at the house.
(d) At the bottom of her sock drawer.

3. Where does Irene first meet Peter Sample?
(a) Irene and Peter meet at church.
(b) Irene and Peter meet Henry's Drive-In.
(c) Irene and Peter meet on the A train they both took to work.
(d) Irene and Peter meet as children, when they were neighbors.

4. What is so strange about Ezra's, Jeremy's co-worker at Video Hut, car accident?
(a) Ezra gets into the car accident out near Collins, which is out of the way to where Ezra would normally be traveling home.
(b) Ezra's car accident is due to unknown circumstances.
(c) Ezra's car accident happens in the middle of the night when Ezra should have been working at Video Hut.
(d) Ezra gets into a car accident near Sarah Jane's house, and Jeremy wonders what he is doing there.

5. How does Jeremy feel about his father's request about future jobs?
(a) Jeremy feels as if his father is too "tired to answer each other's questions about it..." (7).
(b) Jeremy feels as if his father is trying to make him stay home for selfish reasons.
(c) Jeremy feels like "there wasn't much else to say" (7).
(d) Jeremy feels like "his father is being nosy, because he feels ashamed of" (7) Jeremy.