Bright Lights, Big City Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Bright Lights, Big City Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, The Utility of Fiction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator dances with a girl at the club, what does she reveal she has heard about his wife?
(a) His wife has returned to him and his waiting at his apartment.
(b) His wife was an activist and executed by Che Guevara.
(c) His wife died of leukemia.
(d) His wife left him for her career in Paris.

2. What kind of guy does the narrator see himself as?
(a) The kind of guy who appreciates a night a home with a good book.
(b) The kind of guy who runs marathons for fun.
(c) The kind of guy who is the life of the party.
(d) The kind of guy who enjoys facts and spurns fiction.

3. What was the narrator's most significant contact with The Druid?
(a) The day the Druid caught the narrator snorting coke in the bathroom.
(b) The Druid's unexpected presence at the narrator's wedding.
(c) The day the Druid sat on an old lady in the subway.
(d) The Druid's concern over the President's usage of the word "precipitous."

4. What is the significance of the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia street?
(a) This is the location of Tad Allagash's death.
(b) This is the location of the apartment building where the narrator lived with Amanda.
(c) This is the location of a recent murder investigation.
(d) This is the location of the coffee shop where the narrator and Amanda met.

5. Why does the narrator like Tad Allagash?
(a) He and Allagash have been through a lot of tough times together.
(b) Allagash is helping the narrator win back Amanda, the love of his life.
(c) Allagash never asks him probing questions: their friendship is very surface.
(d) He and Allagash have been friends since childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of ship does the narrator watch make its way across the river?

2. What heath ailment does Wade knowingly joke about with the narrator?

3. What is Tad Allagash's main goal in life?

4. What happens to the narrator's deadline on the French piece?

5. Why has Tad insisted on making up stories about Amanda and the narrator's separation?

(see the answer key)

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