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

2. When does J.P. ask his wife on a first date?
(a) He doesn't ask her; she asks him.
(b) A week after they meet.
(c) The day after they meet.
(d) The night they meet.

3. Why does J.P. say he switched drinks?
(a) He doesn't know.
(b) To get drunk faster.
(c) His wife influenced him.
(d) He liked the taste.

4. What did the famous writer who lived near the facility die of?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) He shot himself.
(c) He was in a plane crash.
(d) Alcoholism and drug abuse.

5. What does the teenager say when the narrator and his girlfriend are leaving for the facility?
(a) "Drive safely."
(b) "I'll be gone when you get back."
(c) "The hell with you."
(d) "Good riddance."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does J.P. carry to work in a thermos?

2. What does a kiss from a chimney sweep supposedly bring?

3. Where on their bodies do many residents at the facility, including J.P., have cuts?

4. What kind of head covering does the landlord wear?

5. What term does the narrator use for his treatment?

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