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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.
(a) This is personification.
(b) This is a simile.
(c) This is metonymy.
(d) This is a metaphor.

2. Which of Quoyle's jobs are listed on the first page of the novel?
(a) Rope-maker and knot-tester, cab driver, third-rate journalist.
(b) Bell-hop at a hotel, third-rate journalist, traveling salesman.
(c) Distributer of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, third-rate journalist.
(d) Greeting card writer, bell-hop at a hotel, all-night clerk at a convenience store.

3. Why does Petal telephone Quoyle from Montgomery?
(a) To ask him how to cure a hangover.
(b) To tell him she is divorcing him.
(c) To ask him to join her there.
(d) To ask him how to make an Alabama Slammer.

4. How is Agnis Hamm related to Quoyle's father?
(a) She is his sister.
(b) She is his second cousin.
(c) She is his ex-wife.
(d) She is his brother's wife.

5. What is the distinctive feature of the Quoyle house?
(a) It's painted bright green.
(b) An odd roof-line.
(c) A window flanked by two smaller ones.
(d) The carving on the gables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the story Quoyle tells his daughters?

2. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .

3. How does Quoyle get the list of ships?

4. Who is responsible for the Home News Page?

5. What injuries did Dennis sustain during the storm crisis on The Polar Grinder?

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