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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 45-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dominick awakes from a dream in which he ignores Thomas' skill at __________________.
(a) Skipping rocks across a pond.
(b) Reading.
(c) Acting.
(d) Singing.

2. Who does Papa decide to thank for all of his blessings when the archbishop comes to bless the school?
(a) Prosperine.
(b) God.
(c) Vincenzo.
(d) Ignazia.

3. Ma accepts her diagnosis as one which is ____________, even if it means that she will die a painful death.
(a) Unfair.
(b) A relief.
(c) God's will.
(d) Needed.

4. Patel wants to find out more about why Dominick continues to use the word __________ to describe the process of therapy.
(a) Prison.
(b) Jail.
(c) Autopsy.
(d) Torture.

5. Papa offers to take both Ignazia and Prosperine into his home, though Prosperine will be the ___________.
(a) Roommate.
(b) Second wife.
(c) Servant.
(d) Mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the language in which the life story of Papa is written, which is why the family never had it translated?

2. ___________ retains grief at having been too busy at the end of a semester to enjoy the new baby.

3. Who is fired from his job at the plant and eventually becomes a greengrocer at Hurok's Market?

4. What is the diagnosis which has been given to Thomas, in which he hears voices and sees hallucinations?

5. What is the old phobia that Dominick has to face in addition to the shocking image he sees while at the Rood's house?

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