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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.
(a) A girl
(b) An older man
(c) Not like his father
(d) A baby

2. What does Gambo say of Jeff as she is looking at him and telling others to look as well?
(a) He looks like Melody
(b) He is handsome
(c) He is short
(d) He is too much like his father

3. What is the weather like when Jeff is sitting at the island before he leaves for his father's house?
(a) Rainy
(b) Cold
(c) Hot
(d) Stormy

4. Melody tells Jeff that _________________ have killed the crabs and the herons who used to live in the marshes.
(a) Factories
(b) Men
(c) Oil drillers
(d) Larger fish

5. What is NOT one of the things that Jeff does when he is at the island?
(a) Collects trash
(b) Swims
(c) Watches the waves
(d) Runs along the dunes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeff write to Gambo after he arrives back in town from his trip with his mother?

2. Professor notes that Tolstoy once said that every unhappy family is ____________ in its own way.

3. Jeff doesn't care what's happening to him at school, because of _____________, "nothing could touch him."

4. Which animal impresses Jeff with its solitude as he looks out the window of the bus?

5. The Professor admits that Melody was often ___________ with him - first by his inability to first buy a big engagement ring and then buy a house.

(see the answer key)

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