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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator, what is the worst scene among the evacuees?
(a) Men begging for food
(b) Children crying for milk
(c) Women vomiting in the streets
(d) The women with dead babies who will not relinquish them

4. What is Nick's mood?
(a) Brooding
(b) Sarcastic
(c) Petulant
(d) Excited

5. What does Ad ask Nick to give him?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Coffee
(c) Cigarette
(d) Knife

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nick and Bill talk about?

2. What is Nick's father's profession?

3. In what year does the story for Chapter 7 take place?

4. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?

5. A bullfight can have only ____________ matadors.

(see the answer key)

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