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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is J.P. when he meets his wife?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighteen or nineteen.
(c) Exactly eighteen.
(d) Exactly nineteen.

2. What does the title of the story refer to?
(a) Something the narrator says to J.P.
(b) What the narrator's wife asks him.
(c) What the narrator says his wife will ask him.
(d) What the telephone operator asks the narrator.

3. What word does J.P. use to describe how the facility's proprietor makes him feel?
(a) Misfit.
(b) Loser.
(c) Bug.
(d) Dog.

4. On what charge is J.P. arrested?
(a) Speeding.
(b) Driving without his license.
(c) Leaving the scene of an accident.
(d) Drunk driving.

5. What animal noise does Tiny make when he comes downstairs one morning?
(a) Meowing.
(b) Mooing.
(c) Quacking.
(d) Barking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was J.P. doing when he met his wife?

2. Whose car do the narrator and his girlfriend take to the facility?

3. What do J.P. and the narrator do at the end of New Year's Eve?

4. After his girlfriend leaves, where does the narrator sit?

5. When does J.P. officially become a chimney sweep?

(see the answer key)

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