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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Humpbacks, A Meeting, Little Sister Pond, The Roses and Blackberries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator compare sin to in 'An Old Whorehouse'?
(a) Stagnant water.
(b) Tar.
(c) Memories.
(d) Flowers.

2. What does the narrator drop into the grass in 'The Meeting'?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A book.
(c) A package.
(d) A dress.

3. What is the whorehouse filled with?
(a) Bones.
(b) Cobwebs.
(c) Old clothing.
(d) Pictures.

4. What is thriving at the Boston Hospital?
(a) The trees.
(b) The nurses.
(c) The children.
(d) Death.

5. In 'Clapp's Pond', what does the narrator see drinking from the lake miles away?
(a) A doe.
(b) An egret.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A pheasant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator want to do at the end of 'The Meeting'?

2. What was in the attic in 'Web'?

3. What charts the health of the patients at the hospital?

4. What is described in the second part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

5. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?

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