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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?
(a) Gives him a sedative
(b) Sings a lullaby
(c) Knocks him out
(d) Makes him drink whiskey

2. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He has to go to work in the morning
(b) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(c) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed
(d) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods

3. How long has Nick's nurse stayed on night duty to care for him?
(a) 3 years
(b) 3 days
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 3 months

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

5. Who is Ad Francis?
(a) A Wall Street executive
(b) A former prizefighter
(c) An author
(d) A minister

Short Answer Questions

1. Nick's recovery in a hospital mirrors whose life?

2. What is meant by "riding the rails?"

3. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

4. What is a woman doing on a cart?

5. Why does the Lieutenant ride his horse out into the field?

(see the answer key)

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