A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Riptide, and Chapter 5, Water Therapy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who voided Joan's many mistakes at the fish market cash register?
(a) The market owner's wife.
(b) A female coworker.
(c) Joan E.
(d) The market owner.

2. Who called Joan the evening after she returned from the seal island?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Joshua Cahoon.
(d) Her husband.

3. How did Joan meet Joshua Cahoon?
(a) He sat next to her at Larry's PX.
(b) He was her editor.
(c) He worked with her husband.
(d) He was her neighbor on Cape Cod.

4. In Chapter 5, Water Therapy, who invites Joan to have a glass of wine and talk?
(a) Her neighbor.
(b) Her coworkers at the fish market.
(c) Joshua Cahoon.
(d) Joan Erickson.

5. Which of Joan's relatives got multiple scholarship offers from Ivy League colleges?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her oldest son.
(c) Her youngest son.
(d) Her older brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Joan's husband left in Chapter 1, Ebb Tide, how did Joan react?

2. Where was the cottage to which Joan wanted to retreat at the beginning of the book?

3. What did most people on the island think Joan was in town to do?

4. What is ebb tide?

5. In Chapter 4, Riptide, which of the following was not a task Joan had to do in her job at Nickerson's Fish Market?

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