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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Waves of Truth, and Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Joan's husband sent to live at age twelve?
(a) His grandparents' home in Kentucky.
(b) An Episcopalian boarding school.
(c) A boarding school in England.
(d) An orphanage.

2. How long had Joan and her family lived in their big old family house?
(a) Two months.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Seventeen years.

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

4. What did Joan envy about the seals?
(a) Their swimming skills.
(b) Their warm layer of body fat.
(c) Their cuteness.
(d) Their home in the ocean.

5. In Chapter 2, The Call of the Seal, what time do the birds begin chattering in the morning at Joan's cottage?
(a) Five thirty.
(b) Six thirty.
(c) Eight thirty.
(d) Four thirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joan's husband think when Joan made an angel in the snow?

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

3. Where did Joan and her husband go to work for the Peace Corps in the early days of their marriage?

4. Who called Joan the evening after she returned from the seal island?

5. Because Joan entertained their guests at parties while her husband sat quietly in the corner, how did Joan's husband describe himself and his wife?

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