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

2. What is the narrator's first name?
(a) His name is not given.
(b) Bob.
(c) Tom.
(d) Ray.

3. Who calls for an ambulance after Tiny's fall?
(a) J.P.
(b) The proprietor.
(c) The narrator.
(d) An unnamed patient.

4. Which famous writer once lived near the facility?
(a) Tennessee Williams.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Jack London.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. What is Tiny's profession?
(a) Electrician.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Chimney sweep.
(d) Truck driver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he needs to talk to his wife?

2. Where does the character that the narrator calls "the guy who travels" say he goes regularly?

3. Whom does the narrator try to call on New Year's Eve?

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

5. On her visit to the facility, where does J.P.'s wife want to go with him?

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