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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: The Promenade and Chapter V: Neither Here nor There.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan for the day does Michael veto in Chapter V: Neither Here nor There because he considers it childish?
(a) The museum.
(b) The ice skating rink.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The library.

2. What name does Michael call Noah at the pizza parlor when Noah will not buy him a Coke?
(a) Dickhead.
(b) Richie Rich.
(c) Motherfucker.
(d) Daddy Warbucks.

3. Michael tells Noah in Chapter IV: The Promenade that cash for food lasted how many weeks "max" (126) each month while his grandmother was alive?
(a) 1.5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. How does Donoghue translate the phrase, "The Vielle Ville" (163)?
(a) Old Nice.
(b) New Nice.
(c) Downtown Nice.
(d) Gentrified Nice.

5. From what location does the novel's protagonist, Noah, hear his wife Joan speaking in Chapter 1: The Call?
(a) From inside his mind.
(b) From the pool area.
(c) From the back garden.
(d) From the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Noah's mother died in July of which year, the month before the date written on the mailer Noah finds?

2. How many photographs are contained within the mailer Noah finds in Chapter 1: The Call?

3. In what year did Joan meet her best friend Vivienne in first grade at "their tony New York girls' school" (16)?

4. Noah tells Michael on the way to the convenience store in Chapter II: Twenty Questions that his late dog Mendeleev had been what breed?

5. What position did Madame Dupont hold within Pere Sonne's household?

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