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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the girl's looks?
(a) She was ugly as sin.
(b) She was arrestingly beautiful.
(c) She was attractive, but too skinny.
(d) She was alright.

2. What simile is used to describe how Dexter's heart turned over?
(a) Like a top.
(b) Like a spinning golf ball.
(c) Like the reel of a fishing pole.
(d) Like the fly-wheel of the boat.

3. Dexter owned the largest string of his type of business in his section of the country by the time he was what age?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twenty-seven.
(d) Twenty-three.

4. What does the girl who hit the golf ball say when her partner came over the hill? "I'd have gone on the green except that. . . "
(a) "I caught the sand trap."
(b) "I landed in the water."
(c) "I hit something."
(d) "I hit someone."

5. Why does the main character work as a caddy?
(a) To meet people.
(b) He loves golf.
(c) He's too young to work elsewhere.
(d) To earn pocket money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of badge did the main character hand in?

2. What is the name of the best grocery store?

3. How much money did the main character earn caddying each month?

4. What troubled Dexter when he was in college?

5. The simile made about the winters is that they "shut down like the white. . ."

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