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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leopolda's big key open?
(a) The larder where the food is kept.
(b) The closet where the Dark One is hiding.
(c) The iron stove.
(d) The medicine closet where she keeps the salve.

2. Comparing the size of her ignorance to the length of the sky, Marie attempts to convey that:
(a) Her ignorance was pure and wide.
(b) Her ignorance was part of her atmosphere.
(c) Her ignorance was no hindrance to her.
(d) Her ignorance spanned the globe.

3. Sister Leopolda's actions characterize her as:
(a) Fanatical and obsessive.
(b) Pious and docile.
(c) Loving but strict.
(d) Severe yet reverent.

4. The real purpose for Sister Leopolda's long oak pole with the hook at the end is:
(a) Tapping bread loaves in the oven.
(b) Opening closet doors.
(c) Shaking birds' nests from the trees.
(d) Opening high windows.

5. How are Marie and Rushes Bear "related" by the end of the story?
(a) They are both willing to overlook Fleur Pillager's interference in their marriages.
(b) The discover that Marie and Nector are cousins.
(c) They are both lonely, having survived unsuccessful marriages, and care for each other.
(d) Marie discovers that Rushes Bear was her mother all along.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Albertine cause her mother's downfall?

2. King's exchange with his wife Lynette suggests what?

3. What does Nector finally feel about the geese he was going to sell?

4. Nector does not notice Marie because:

5. Why does Albertine feel the government's policy of allotment was a joke?

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