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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: You Have to be Cruel to be Kind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Doctors take him to Auschwitz, where he is killed.
(b) Orderlies take him on a stretcher and put him on the ground.
(c) He goes home to Main Street USA.
(d) To the tennis court, where he plays tennis.

2. What does the old man tell Tod Friendly after the narrator sees Tod drive his car away from the fire hydrant?
(a) "Your driving days are over."
(b) "I need a prescription for pain."
(c) "It is your turn to discard."
(d) "I know you from somewhere."

3. How does the narrator know that Tod Friendly speaks a second language?
(a) Tod tells him.
(b) Tod dreams of it sometimes.
(c) Tod reads the foreign newspapers.
(d) Tod understands when the doctors speak to him.

4. How does the narrator feel about eating?
(a) It fills him with pain.
(b) He is disgusted.
(c) He is afraid of his food.
(d) He is always hungry.

5. What does Tod Friendly think the orderlies did to him at the accident scene?
(a) Kissed him.
(b) Stole his money.
(c) Shaved him.
(d) Took him to the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator?

2. What does Tod Friendly do when he shaves?

3. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?

4. What is Tod Friendly's job?

5. Where does Tod Friendly live in the beginning of the book?

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