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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Multiply Zero By Zero And You Still Get Zero.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about doctors?
(a) He loves them.
(b) He recognizes them from Auschwitz.
(c) He hates them.
(d) He pretends not to know them.

2. When would John Young's affairs typically begin?
(a) After his lovers are beaten by their husbands.
(b) A few months after he performs an abortion for his girlfriend.
(c) A few months before he performs an abortion for his girlfriend.
(d) After he helps people at the hospital.

3. Who is the president of the United States at the beginning of the book?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Richard Nixon.

4. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reads their lips.
(b) He translates their words from another language.
(c) He reverses their words.
(d) He deciphers the code in which people speak.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the taxi cab take John Young after his night of drinking?

2. What does the narrator think the patients feel about being gathered at Auschwitz?

3. What can the narrator control?

4. How does the narrator feel about John Young's departure from New York?

5. Where does the narrator get his mail from?

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