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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Fulghum tells the story of Nicolai Pestretsov, how old does he say the sergeant major is?
(a) Thirty-one.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Thirty-six.
(d) Forty-two.

2. What did the soldiers and priests build in San Saba to accommodate them?
(a) A fort, a mission chapel, and a shooting range.
(b) A mission chapel.
(c) A fort.
(d) A fort and a mission chapel.

3. What kind of pickup truck does Fulghum remember riding home in on a summer's eve?
(a) GM.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Chrysler.
(d) Ford.

4. According to Fulghum, where is all the software needed to run an abacus?
(a) In your fingers.
(b) In a book.
(c) Under your nose.
(d) Between your ears.

5. In Chapter 9, what does Fulghum claim he thinks about every morning as he dresses?
(a) The kind of lunch he will have in the afternoon.
(b) His wife and how hard she works.
(c) His kids.
(d) The gummy lump box.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what is the name of Fulghum's neighbor who lives up the hill from him?

2. Fulghum says that if the population of the earth were to increase at the present rate, then by what year would the total mass of humans be equal to the mass of the earth?

3. At the end of Chapter 12, what does Fulghum claim would make a good bumper sticker for the eighties?

4. In Chapter 27, Fulghum tells the reader that he knows what he wants for Christmas and he's known since he was forty. What is it that Fulghum wants?

5. Fulghum's lawyer friend travels with his two eighteen-year-old girls and what kind of animal?

(see the answer key)

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