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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dr. Adams think Boulton picked a fight with him?
(a) He is angry about segregation
(b) Boulton owes him money and did not want to do the job
(c) His wife just left him
(d) He is off his antidepressant medication

2. What does Bugs offer to Nick?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Food
(d) Clothes

3. What does Nick's father not do?
(a) Drive
(b) Hunt
(c) Fish
(d) Drink

4. Whose life does the character of Nick Adams parallel?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) William Faulkner
(d) T.S. Eliot

5. What do the sailors on the Simpson do to the evacuees every night?
(a) Run their searchlight up and down the crowd
(b) Give them food
(c) Provide first aid
(d) Yell at them to go home

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?

2. To where does Nick walk to visit his friend, Bill?

3. What does Ad ask Nick to give him?

4. Why do Nick and Bill not go out in the boat?

5. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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