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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the albino porpoise in Colleton?
(a) Snowflake.
(b) Ginger.
(c) Snow.
(d) Susan.

2. What does Tom tell Lila he has decided to tell Dr. Lowenstein?
(a) What happened the day Henry beat Luke.
(b) What happened on the island that Savannah described allegorically.
(c) What happened the afternoon the tiger got loose from Henry.
(d) What happened the summer Savannah first tried to kill herself.

3. Why is Sallie unable to answer Tom over the phone?
(a) She no longer feels the same way about Tom.
(b) Her affair with the doctor has become too complicated.
(c) The children can hear the conversation.
(d) Her lover is at the front door.

4. Why does Lila insist that Tom remain silent about the past?
(a) Because Savannah will write about it.
(b) Because Luke will be crushed by the news.
(c) Because Tom's wife should hear the story first.
(d) Because the doctor will not understand.

5. Why do Tom and Savannah get in a fight near the end of Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Tom steals her journal.
(b) Tom says the word "nigger."
(c) Tom refuses to give a nickel to a man begging for change.
(d) Tom makes fun of Grandpa Wingo praying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lila do after finding Savannah's journal?

2. What is the initial topic of Tom's heated discussion with Dr. Lowenstein?

3. Where does Grandpa take the children after his Good Friday performance?

4. What does Tom read to better understand Savannah's psychosis?

5. Why does Tom call Sallie?

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