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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: if only, Chapters 18-19 and Part V: never any knowing, Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nic get out of jail the first time he is arrested?
(a) David bails him out.
(b) His charges are dismissed.
(c) He serves his sentence.
(d) He escapes.

2. Nic's grandfather had died from years of abuse of what substance?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Methamphetamine.
(d) Barbiturates.

3. Part V begins with an excerpt of the script from what film?
(a) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(b) Being John Malkovich.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Human Nature.

4. Nic decides that his choice of college had been a mistake and that he would do better at what type of college?
(a) A more progressive college.
(b) A more studious college.
(c) An art college.
(d) A smaller college.

5. While attending Hampshire College, Nic finds a sponsor who is a graduate student attending what college?
(a) Yale.
(b) The University of Massachusetts.
(c) Amherst College.
(d) Mount Holyoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What elements does David name as being involved in the deaths of Charles's parents prior to Charles's enrollment in college?

2. What is NOT a piece of evidence that tells the author and his wife that Nic has broken into the family home?

3. At what time of day is Nic born?

4. For what reason is Nic reluctant to return to the Bay Area after his branch of the Hazelden closes?

5. Part II begins with an epigraph from which play by William Shakespeare?

(see the answer key)

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