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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Prairie's boyfriend's name?
(a) Isaiah Five Two.
(b) Isaiah Two Four.
(c) Isaac Two Five.
(d) Isaiah Fourty Two.

2. What kind of band is Isaiah in?
(a) Forty's and fifties big band.
(b) Rock band.
(c) Punk band.
(d) Country and western band.

3. What does Pynchon call the television?
(a) The Boob.
(b) The Tuge.
(c) The idiot box.
(d) The black hole.

4. What cartoon characters are Hector and Zoyd compared to?
(a) Sylvester and Tweety.
(b) Elmer and Bugs Bunny.
(c) Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.
(d) Bugs and Daffy.

5. What is different this year about the glass window?
(a) It is framed with metal.
(b) It is stunt glass made of sugar.
(c) It is reinforced.
(d) It is smaller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hector want Zoyd to do?

2. What worries Zoyd more than his daughter's choice of boyfriends?

3. What does Isaiah want to do?

4. What does Zoyd advise Prairie's boyfriend to do?

5. What is he supposed to do this year?

(see the answer key)

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