Pigman
Quiz
- When he was a freshman,
John expressed his opinion of school by
- writing letters to the editor
of his school paper.
- setting off firecrackers in
the boys’ bathroom.
- staying after school every
night.
- Skipping school every
Wednesday.
- John showed leadership
qualities by organizing
- a coed volleyball team
- collection of rotten
fruit from the crates of the cafeteria
- a picket line in the
cafeteria
- a fruit roll on
Wednesdays when there was a substitute
- During his sophomore
year, John gave up his pranks and confined his activities to
- writing on the desks
- sending paper
airplanes through the library
- chewing bubble gum and
cracking it
- throwing paper balls
- John and Lorraine decided to
write the memorial epic about Mr. Pignati because
- some strange things
had happened in the last few months
- they were commissioned
by a book publisher to write his story
- Mr. Pignati left them
money to write his story
- Their English teacher
had assigned a true experience story
- Lorraine attributes John’s beer drinking to
- Norton Kelly’s
influence
- The gang John runs
around with
- John’s paranoia
- His father’s example
when John was young
- The thing John and Lorraine liked best
about the Pigman was
- he never called them
jazzy, cool, or hip
- he played a sharp
poker game
- he always offered them
beer
- he had lots of money
- In one way Mr. Pignati
was similar to
- Bobo
- Norton Kelly
- Miss Reillen
- Lorraine’s mother
- John and Lorraine became
acquainted with the Pigman by
- picking up a
contribution to the L&J Fund
- doing yard work for
him
- being introduced by a
mutual friend
- meeting his wife
- The object of the
telephone marathon was
- to get money for the
school’s Varsity Club
- to set up an emergency
telephone system
- to keep a stranger
talking as long as possible
- to raise money for the
Cancer Fund
- John’s father put a
lock on their phone because
- John’s father wanted
to monitor his calls
- John talked too long
- The telephone company
required the lock in the city
- All of the above
- Lorraine began to feel sorry that she had called
Mr. Pignati because
- he yelled at her
- he tried to sell her a
subscription to a magazine
- he seemed quite mean
- he sounded like a
nice, lonely, old man
- John’s mother refers to
Kenneth as a model of proper behavior. Who is Kenneth?
- John’s cousin
- John’s father
- John’s brother
- John’s best friend
- John places blame for
the glue in the telephone lock on
- Kenneth
- Aunt Ahra
- Lorraine
- Norton
- Lorraine’s mother works as a
- social worker
- secretary
- receptionist
- nurse
- The author gives many
clues that “coping with death” may be the theme of this novel by:
- having Lorraine’s mother
act as a hospice nurse
- telling how Aunt Ahra
died in the family’s apartment
- having the stranger on the
corner shout, “Death is coming.”
- All of these.
- Mr. Pignati enjoyed
visiting the zoo because he
- was interested in
zoology
- enjoyed getting away
from his wife
- thought of the animals
as his friends
- liked to talk to the
other people there
- How does John’s father
react to John’s plans to be an actor?
- he thinks John is a
lunatic
- he encourages him in
his choice
- he promises to send
him to acting school
- he hits John
- There are several
deaths in this story. Why do John and Lorraine only react to Mr. Pignati’s
death?
- They had befriended
only Mr. Pignati
- There was no close
relationship with the other people.
- Both of these reasons.
- Norton Kelly was called
the Marshmallow Kid because
- he always carried
around a bag of marshmallows
- his father worked for
Campfire Marshmallow Co.
- he was fat like a
marshmallow
- he got caught stealing
marshmallows from a store
- After John and Lorraine confessed
that they were not charity workers, Mr. Pignati made a confession which
was
- he wife was dead
- he and his wife fought
all the time
- he owned a house in California
- he had a son in California
- During the roller
skating tag game, Mr. Pignati
- sprained his ankle
- turned fancy figures
on the hall floor
- did a skater’s waltz
- has a heart attack
- The evening of John and
Lorraine’s
candlelight spaghetti dinner apparently changed
- John’s attitude toward
his father
- Lorraine’s attitude toward her mother
- John’s attitude toward
Lorraine
- John’s attitude toward
Mr. Pignati
- Mr. Pignati died
- at the party
- of pneumonia in the
hospital
- at the zoo
- when he admitted to
himself that his wife was dead
- John tries to give the
Pigman’s death some meaning; he says “Trespassing – that’s what he (Mr.
Pignati) had done.” What does he mean?
- when you grow up, you’re
not supposed to go back.
- Mr. Pignati had
interrupted their party.
- When you mature, you
don’t sin
- None of the above
- Lorraine said of her experiences with the
Pigman, “We were just playing.” How did she define play?
- dressing up and reading
dramatic parts.
- Something natural to
prepare for later life.
- Doing mean tricks on
older people
- Whatever one does that
is not work.