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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does "the guy who travels" get to the facility?
(a) He can't remember.
(b) He drove himself.
(c) His wife drove him.
(d) He took the train.

2. Where did J.P. grow up?
(a) In a small town.
(b) On a farm.
(c) In a trailer park.
(d) Outside a big city.

3. What does the girlfriend say to the proprietor when she and the narrator arrive at the facility?
(a) "Nice place you got here."
(b) "Guess who's here."
(c) "What a dump."
(d) "I think you're expecting him."

4. What does J.P. say he wanted to do when he got out of high school?
(a) To be a fireman.
(b) To go to college.
(c) Absolutely nothing.
(d) To join the Navy.

5. What does the title of the story refer to?
(a) What the narrator's wife asks him.
(b) What the telephone operator asks the narrator.
(c) Something the narrator says to J.P.
(d) What the narrator says his wife will ask him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does the proprietor recommend to J.P. and the narrator?

2. What does the narrator eat for Christmas dinner?

3. On the drive to the facility after dinner, what do the narrator and his girlfriend drink?

4. Who takes J.P. to the treatment facility?

5. Who rescues J.P. from the well?

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