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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, In which Esther gets a nose job, Chapter 5, in which Stencil goes West with an alligator, and Chapter 6, In which Profane returns to street level.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a strange habit of the seaman who Benny recognizes in the bar from the Navy?
(a) He chews his foot.
(b) He sleeps upside down.
(c) He wears a toupe.
(d) He likes to bite the buttocks of barmaids.

2. What does Rachel Owlglass do for a living in New York City?
(a) She is an accountant.
(b) She is an interviewer at an employment firm.
(c) She is a dentist.
(d) She is a receptionist at a law firm.

3. When the police arrive at the bar, where do Profane, Pig and Paola flee to?
(a) They run away to Greece.
(b) They go to an apartment of another sailor, Morris Teflon.
(c) They go to the boat.
(d) They climb up the fire escape.

4. What does Rachel say that Stencil wrote in his note?
(a) That he is committing suicide.
(b) That he is in love with her.
(c) That he would be tracing a lead in the sewers.
(d) That he is afraid of Mafia.

5. What is Lepsius wearing at the party?
(a) Blue-tinted eyeglasses.
(b) A gun holster.
(c) A carmelian rose.
(d) A cravat.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the last night before he leaves the Catskills, what does Benny see Rachel doing when he goes to talk to her?

2. What does Pig Bodine tell Benny about the couple Pappy Hod and Paolo?

3. What apparently had Paola done by marrying Pappy Hod?

4. Who does the Whole Sick Crew listen to at a jazz bar in Chapter 2?

5. What is the name of the rat that the priest describes in his journal as wanting to be a sister?

(see the answer key)

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