Chemistry: A Novel Quiz

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Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What motivates the narrator to go to the park in the winter weather? (from Pages 175 - 211)

She things fresh air is good for her mental state.

She likes to meet the math student there.

The dog wants to be walked.

She enjoys making scientific observations there.

2.

Why does the narrator's father think "green thumb" is a strange idiom? (from Pages 109 - 147)

He is used to using machines, rather than his hands, to grow crops.

He cannot understand the figurative meaning of the idiom.

When he was a child, his work in the fields as a farmer was dangerous and led him to loose his thumb.

He does not like gardening and does not understand what it refers to.

3.

How does the narrator's mother show hospitality to Eric? (from Pages 175 - 211)

She prepares a Chinese meal for him.

She tells him he does not have to try to speak Chinese.

She tells him how happy she is that he and the narrator found each other.

She feeds him all of the American breakfast food she has seen on TV.

4.

How does the narrator react to receiving an e-mail from Eric? (from Pages 148 - 174)

She is angry that he did not e-mail her sooner.

She immediately opens it because she misses him so much.

She is reluctant to open it and then deletes it.

She deliberately ignores it.

5.

Why does the narrator contrast Clara and Fritz Haber with Marie and Pierre Curie? (from Pages 175 - 211)

She laments that the wives in both marriage were mistreated by their husband.

She realizes that marriages can fall between the extremes of good and bad.

One couple shows how science can make the world better, and the other shows how science can make the world worse.

Their marriages prove that the narrator and Eric would never have been happy.

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