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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Part 2 (pages 143-156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe the main narrative perspective of Tinkers?
(a) The narrator is Kathleen.
(b) The narrator is Sam.
(c) The narrator is Charles Crosby.
(d) It is a third-person omniscient narrator.

2. The narrator says of Kathleen in Chapter 2, "Only her face is visible above the top of the bedcovers. It glows like a pale egg." What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Simile.

3. What is the name of Howard's mule?
(a) Clara.
(b) Peter the Great.
(c) Prince Edward.
(d) Napoleon.

4. What does George ask his family to get when he first rises in bed in the beginning of the novel?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Plaster.
(c) A car.
(d) An ambulance.

5. What does George's mother serve for Christmas dinner on the night that George witnesses his father's seizure?
(a) Roast turkey.
(b) Roast beef.
(c) Roasted goose.
(d) Glazed ham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does George put the wrapped dead mouse inside of in Chapter 2?

2. The one occurrence when George witnesses one of his father's grand mal seizures is during Christmas dinner in what year?

3. How is Marjorie related to George?

4. What is the name of Ezra Morell's son and George's childhood best friend?

5. What word in Chapter 3 refers to a repository for relics?

(see the answer key)

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