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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, Coma Baby Lives.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about his childhood?
(a) He felt loved and treasured, easily making friends.
(b) He feels he had a very normal, average childhood.
(c) He felt he was always on the outside looking in.
(d) He is not really affected by his past one way or the other.

2. In what point of view is the novel written?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

3. About whom does the narrator dream that night?
(a) His mother.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Coma baby.
(d) Michael.

4. What does stepping outside the club feel like to the narrator?
(a) A brisk morning walk.
(b) A heavenly descent.
(c) A shopping trip at Christmastime.
(d) A mother's reproach.

5. With whom does the narrator ride the train to work?
(a) Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn.
(b) Dominicans from Washington Heights.
(c) Greeks from Astoria.
(d) Italians from New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Tad and the narrator go to party?

2. What is the narrator's nickname for cocaine?

3. What kind of guy does the narrator see himself as?

4. What animal does the narrator compare to Amanda?

5. Upon his discovery, what phrase does the narrator blurt out?

(see the answer key)

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