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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator want to ask Tiny about what happened to him during breakfast?
(a) What the hospital was like.
(b) If he feels better.
(c) If he had any signal before it happened.
(d) If the incident has happened to him before.

2. Who takes J.P. to the treatment facility?
(a) His father.
(b) His in-laws.
(c) The police.
(d) His wife.

3. What is one thing J.P. worries about when he is in the well?
(a) All of the above.
(b) That it would rain.
(c) That something would fall on him.
(d) That he would starve to death.

4. In the story, what is the well a metaphor for?
(a) Self-hatred.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Despair.
(d) Alcoholism.

5. How old is J.P.'s wife when they meet?
(a) He doesn't say.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is J.P. when he meets his wife?

2. What word does the narrator use for a drink?

3. What is the name of the narrator's landlord?

4. What is the last line of the story?

5. On what charge is J.P. arrested?

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