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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author feel is necessary to be interrupted?
(a) People speaking.
(b) The order of life.
(c) Incorrect grammar.
(d) The order of the universe.

2. What does the prologue offer the reader?
(a) An excuse to read more.
(b) A background on the author's family.
(c) Describe's the author's visions.
(d) A sense of the author as a human being.

3. What was the name of the bitter pianist?
(a) Dyer.
(b) Don.
(c) Derek.
(d) Donald.

4. Why were the author and his family traveling at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) To visit his grandmother.
(b) To start a new life.
(c) To travel and sing together.
(d) To sell their car.

5. What is understood about the author and his perception of the people he introduces in Chapters 2 and 3?
(a) He loves and feels supports from them.
(b) He hates them.
(c) He needs them.
(d) He understands the people more while writing about them, rather than when he was living it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does the author mention he and his friend discovered together?

2. Where did Jean travel to get the things he needed to begin his plans of making money in Chapter 3?

3. Where did the author go the day he parted with his friend in Chapter 3?

4. When was the author confronted by a teacher at Southbury?

5. Where were the series of joke items purchased that were played on Jean by the pianist?

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