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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Chapter 37 - Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the "barbarian" who died young, whom Jack thinks about in terms of his own death.
(a) Attila the Hun.
(b) Erik the Red.
(c) Ivan the Terrible.
(d) Charlemagne.

2. What does the D. in Nyodene D. stand for?
(a) Dilution.
(b) Dose.
(c) Dylar.
(d) Derivative.

3. Where does Heinrich's mother live?
(a) In an ashram.
(b) In a convent.
(c) In a castle.
(d) In New Hampshire.

4. Alfonse is an example of one of the academic emigres from where?
(a) Santa Barbara.
(b) Montreal.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

5. In what building is Jack's academic department?
(a) Siskind Commons.
(b) Olin Hall.
(c) Centerary Hall.
(d) Adolf Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to what he says at first, how did Willie Mink learn English?

2. When Jack wakes up in the middle of the night in Chapter 33, which of his children is staring at him?

3. What is the name of Murray's rival and fellow professor who died over vacation?

4. Which character says that she was thinking seriously of eating "yogurt and wheat germ" at this first lunch depicted in the novel?

5. Where does Murray live?

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