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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

2. What does the narrator say his father called him in Chapter 2?
(a) "Nothing at all."
(b) "A bastard."
(c) "A prodigy."
(d) "His love child."

3. Where is the General's store located, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) On Houston Street.
(b) On North Broadway.
(c) On Atlantic Avenue.
(d) On Hollywood Boulevard.

4. What is one of the nicknames for the Congressman that the narrator describes in Chapter 7?
(a) T-Rex.
(b) Napalm Ned.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) The Unifier.

5. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator say actually came up with the question attributed to Lenin in Chapter 1: "What is to be done?"

2. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?

3. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?

4. What is the name of Bon's wife?

5. What does the narrator claim to be guilty of in his confession in Chapter 5?

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