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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most distressing feature of Paul's secret?
(a) The inability to hear his mother and father.
(b) The inability to respond to his mother and father.
(c) The conflict between him and his mother and father.
(d) The embarrassment of his mother and father.

2. How does Paul now view the bare roofs?
(a) As his failure.
(b) As his imagination.
(c) As his reward.
(d) As his reality.

3. How does Paul observe the elm tree and other things on his way home?
(a) With a tainted eye.
(b) With a skeptical eye.
(c) With a tolerant eye.
(d) With a careful eye.

4. At what cost does Paul believe he must keep his secret?
(a) At whatever confusion it brings others.
(b) At whatever pain it causes to others.
(c) At whatever joy it brings others.
(d) At whatever embarrassment it causes to others.

5. What has Paul neglected about his shoes?
(a) To dust them.
(b) To tie them.
(c) To polish them.
(d) To wash them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Paul, as it is revealed in Part 2?

2. What is Paul thinking of as the other students answer Miss Buell's questions?

3. What does Paul look past the snow to see in answering Miss Buell's question?

4. How many houses does Paul discover come before his own on the street?

5. What does Paul contemplate about the following morning in Part 2?

(see the answer key)

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