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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Henry's girlfriend?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Catherine.
(c) Janis.
(d) Penelope.

2. What term does Lizzie use to describe Henry's drug of choice prior to getting sober?
(a) Powders.
(b) Pills.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Oxycontin.

3. Sylvia asks Lizzie to take a job taking what action on her behalf?
(a) Grading papers.
(b) Writing grants.
(c) Taking dictation.
(d) Answering emails.

4. Lizzie annually reads the diaries of which writer as her own birthday approaches?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

5. Lizzie reports that her "crankiest" (19) patrons are which people?
(a) Students.
(b) Guest speakers.
(c) Professors.
(d) Parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Eli use to describe the phase of the moon when Lizzie points it out to him in Chapter One?

2. Ben's hometown is the town of Hackensack in which state?

3. Lizzie refers to Eli's obsessive thoughts with the use of which term?

4. Lizzie takes comfort in her realization that "No one's worrying about" (18) what celestial object?

5. When Lizzie invokes a saying usually applied to the Holocaust, what creature does she use to direct the quote's focus toward humans' destruction of the planet?

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