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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Grady when he found Albert Vetch dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound?
(a) 14.
(b) 21.
(c) 30.
(d) 11.

2. Grady tells the reader in Chapter 2 that after he left home at a young age, he did not return for how many years?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 5.

3. If and when Grady completes and publishes Wonder Boys, it will be which novel?
(a) His 3rd.
(b) His 8th.
(c) His 4th.
(d) His 2nd.

4. In Chapter 3, Grady is driving the car while which character sits in the backseat with Crabtree?
(a) Emily.
(b) Walter.
(c) Miss Sloviak.
(d) Sara.

5. The brothers featured at the center of the novel Wonder Boys reside in which state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Utah.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the topic of the first college class Crabtree and Grady ever took together?

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

3. Wonder Boys is a novel about how many brothers in one family?

4. What instruction does Grady give to James at the end of Chapter 6?

5. At the time when Grady left his grandmother's home, they lived in the western part of which state?

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