Like a House on Fire Quizzes

Like a House on Fire Quiz on "Like a House on Fire"

1 Which activity are the narrator and his family doing during the first scene?
Decorating the tree

Grocery shopping

Playing on the beach

Purchasing a Christmas tree
2 Which organization is selling Christmas trees?
The Kiwanis Club

The Blessed Sacrament School

The Daughters of Australia

The Rotary Club
3 What does the graffiti say outside the grocery store?
Buy local think global

Only eight shoplifting days til Christmas...

Happy Christmas Canberra

Coles sux
4 At the start of the story, how long has it been since the narrator went to work?
Eight weeks

Two months

Six weeks

Four months
5 Which figure survives when the narrator drops the nativity scene?
A goat

The baby Jesus

Joseph

Melchior
6 To whom does the nativity scene belong?
Daniel

Claire

Claire's mother

Eve
7 How high does the narrator rate the tremor on his back on the "Richter scale"?
4.5

8.9

1.8

10
8 What does Claire do for a living?
She's a nurse.

She's a cleaning person at a hospital.

She's an accountant.

She's a doctor.
9 What did the narrator make for Christmas Eve dinner the previous year?
waffles

pancakes

spaghetti and meatballs

a whole ham
10 Which question does Eve ask about Santa Claus that Ben answers sarcastically?
How old is Santa?

How does Santa fit down the chimney?

How do reindeer fly?

How does Santa eat billions of cookies in one night?
11 Why does Claire work Christmas Eve?
Because she can't stand being at home

Because she can earn twice the normal hourly pay

Because they don't have enough money for Christmas presents

Because she can earn three times the normal hourly pay
12 What is the narrator's daughter's name?
Evie

Claire

Mary

Ashley
13 At what point on the narrator's spine does the injury exist?
N3

N4

L3

L6
14 What does the expression, "to get on like a house on fire," mean?
To get along very poorly

To have a passionate, volatile relationship

To get along well and immediately

To get along well, but destructively
15 How does the narrator learn that his wife thinks his back pain is psychosomatic?
The question pops up in her drop down bar when he goes to search something on her laptop.

He looks through the history on her laptop.

Ben tells him he overheard her on the phone asking a doctor.

She tells him.
16 Which meal does the narrator make for Christmas Eve dinner?
Pizza

Pasta

Box mac-n-cheese

Pancakes
17 How old is Ben?
Five

Ten

Thirteen

Eight
18 How did the narrator injure his back in the first place?
Helping his friend push a truck out of the mud

Taking Christmas decorations down from the attic

Trying to clip a stray bough at work

Playing footie with Ben
19 What keeps the narrator awake at night?
Stress about losing his job

The sound of his sons playing computer games

The idea that his wife is thinking about leaving him

The many anti-inflammatories he takes
20 What is on the ceiling that bothers the narrator?
A sauce stain

A pencil mark

A cobweb

A water stain
21 What does the narrator's wife make per hour?
14.50

20.00

7.20

12.50
22 Which of the following does Eve use as a makeshift Virgin Mary?
A Bratz doll

Polly Pocket

Barbie

An American Girl doll
23 When Claire returns home from work Christmas morning, what does the narrator ask her to do?
Get him two ibuprofen

Walk on his back

Clear a cobweb from the ceiling

Take Ben's shoe out from under the couch
24 Why does the narrator make the painful trek up the stairs again on Christmas Eve night?
Because he forgot to turn off the hallway light

Because he noticed some stray toys on the carpet

To look at his kids sleeping

Because he thought he heard a commotion
25 Which of the following does the narrator bring to Claire's attention at the end of the story?
Ben's shoe under the couch

A cobweb on the ceiling

Some stars and glitter ground into the carpet

The amount of time their children are spending watching television