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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tiny's profession?
(a) Chimney sweep.
(b) Truck driver.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Electrician.

2. What does a kiss from a chimney sweep supposedly bring?
(a) Bad health.
(b) New job.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Good luck.

3. What health news does the narrator's girlfriend receive on Christmas Eve?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She has an abnormal Pap smear.
(c) She has to have surgery.
(d) She has a malignant tumor.

4. Why does the narrator's landlord do the remembered task in the early morning?
(a) Because rain is expected.
(b) Before it gets too hot.
(c) He wants to wake the narrator up.
(d) Because he has somewhere else to go.

5. How long were the narrator and his wife married?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three years.
(c) He doesn't say.
(d) Ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When J.P. discovers his wife's affair, what does he do?

2. What is the narrator's first name?

3. What name does the narrator's wife call him the last time they spoke?

4. In what part of the state does the story take place?

5. What term of endearment does the narrator use for his girlfriend?

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