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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Josephine Pollit's role in the Pollit family?
(a) Prodigal daughter.
(b) Lovable nuisance.
(c) Clown.
(d) Matriarch.

2. What do Sam and Henny argue about when they consider Sam's departure?
(a) Henny's hatred for Louie.
(b) Henny's incompetence about money.
(c) Sam's affairs.
(d) An affair Henny had.

3. What 'crime' does Nellie hold against Louie?
(a) The time she lost her keys.
(b) The time she took flowers from someone's yard to give a neighbor.
(c) She time she got sick and needed to be taken care of.
(d) The time she forgot her homework.

4. Who is Rachel?
(a) Henny's sister.
(b) Louie's cousin.
(c) Louie's aunt.
(d) Sam's first wife.

5. What is the house like when Sam arrives home?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Bubbling with children.
(c) Seething with resentments.
(d) Dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the Pollit children?

2. What does Henny threaten to do if she cannot have her way with Hazel Moore?

3. What will Sam's heroism mean for him?

4. What is Norman Collyer's response to Henny's request?

5. Where does Beulah live?

(see the answer key)

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