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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Lewis from asking Toddy for a divorce?
(a) Advice from his father.
(b) Seeing Paul with his wife Kathy.
(c) His fear of being alone.
(d) His religious beliefs.

2. What does Eddie make?
(a) Beautiful hand blown glassware.
(b) Custom-made artificial legs.
(c) Hand rolled cigarettes.
(d) Art from discarded weaponry.

3. Whom does Lewis throw a New Year's party for while in the hospital?
(a) Toddy.
(b) Chesty.
(c) Lewpy.
(d) Phil Leslie.

4. What painful treatment must Lewis endure to prepare his leg for surgery?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Skin stretching.
(c) Steel pin alignments.
(d) Muscle building.

5. What difficulties do Lewis and his sister have to adapt to when they move to Saluda, Virginia?
(a) The lack of children their own ages.
(b) The responsibility of household chores.
(c) The sudden changes in climate.
(d) Chesty's long absences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is living with Martha in Chapter 2?

2. At what point in his life does the author begin telling his story?

3. What does Paul Barents teach Lewis?

4. Who is invited to live with Toddy and Lewis while her husband is recovering from surgery?

5. In Chapter 1, why is Lewis sometimes beaten up by other boys living on base?

(see the answer key)

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