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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve, How It's Going.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel in his meeting with Clara?
(a) Detached: like a samurai, she cannot hurt him if he has already resolved to die.
(b) Giddy: he hates this job and wants to quit.
(c) Afraid: he does not want Clara doing him bodily harm.
(d) Horrified: he is completely blindsided by their conversation.

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

3. What memo, signed by the Druid's assistant, arrives in the afternoon?
(a) The French article is of the utmost importance.
(b) A Mr. Richard Fox is writing an article on the magazine.
(c) The narrator is fired, so everyone say goodbye.
(d) It is Clara's birthday and there is cake in the conference room.

4. Before implementing his plan, what does the narrator compare himself to?
(a) He compares himself to a tourist in Times Square.
(b) He compares himself to a terrorist waiting in unsuspecting crowd.
(c) He compares himself to menorah in a Christmas tree shop.
(d) He compares himself to children at family holidays.

5. What is the narrator's favorite exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum?
(a) The Dinosaurs.
(b) The European paintings from 1700-1750.
(c) The Ancient Chinese Peoples exhibit.
(d) The Egyptian wing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is The Druid?

2. What phrase does Wade want on the narrator's epitaph?

3. What sports faux pas does the narrator commit at the Irish bar?

4. What does stepping outside the club feel like to the narrator?

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

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