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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Walt Catches Cold.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Garp enters Mrs. Ralph's house for the first time, what does she ask Garp to do?
(a) Cook her dinner.
(b) Clean her kitchen.
(c) Help her kick out a young man who won't leave.
(d) Play the piano so she can dance.

2. When the novel begins, what year is it?
(a) We never learn what year it is.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1925.

3. How can Garp and Helen's first conversations best be described?
(a) Short and awkward.
(b) Angry and agressive.
(c) Long and intimate.
(d) Romantic and long-winded.

4. How does Duncan get to his friend's house?
(a) He walks.
(b) Garp drives him.
(c) He takes the bus.
(d) He rides his bike.

5. When Garp is very young, how do the students at Steering treat him?
(a) Kindly.
(b) They bully him around.
(c) They don't even know he exists because Jenny hides him.
(d) They are forbidden to talk to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What final act prompts Garp to take Duncan home from Mrs. Ralph's house?

2. What is the dog is Garp's story to Walt chained to?

3. How does Charlotte die?

4. In what state does Mrs. Ralph appear to be when Garp starts talking to her, after he sneaks over to her house to check on Duncan?

5. What body part does Garp lose to Bonkers?

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