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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the source of the sounds that used to emerge from Albert Vetch's room at the hotel?
(a) A blowtorch.
(b) A fan.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) A stereo.

2. Who owned the McClelland Hotel where Albert Vetch lived?
(a) Grady's sister.
(b) Grady's grandmother.
(c) The mayor.
(d) Vetch's aunt.

3. For how many years has Grady been friends with Crabtree?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

4. What type of event is at the center of Chapter 6?
(a) A party.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A bar mitzvah.

5. In what type of Hollywood deaths is one particular character interested throughout the narrative?
(a) Suicides.
(b) Overdoses.
(c) Drownings.
(d) Murders.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what genre did Albert Vetch create short stories throughout his life?

2. What is the name of the annual event co-planned by Grady, along with others?

3. If and when Grady completes and publishes Wonder Boys, it will be which novel?

4. What does Grady name as the reason behind his inability to finish Wonder Boys?

5. In what year of college was Grady enrolled when his grandmother died of pneumonia?

(see the answer key)

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