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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Seal Woman, and Chapter 11, Ebb and Flow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did most people on the island think Joan was in town to do?
(a) Paint and sell her art work.
(b) Work on a book.
(c) Sell her family's cottage.
(d) Recover from an automobile accident.

2. What color was the inside of Nickerson's Fish Market painted?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Orange and green.
(d) Red.

3. From whom did Joan get the wobbly kitchen table in the cottage?
(a) Joshua Cahoon.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

4. What did Hazel do for a living?
(a) She was an ophthalmologist.
(b) She was a pediatrician.
(c) She was an attorney.
(d) She was an accountant.

5. How did Joan think she was like beach glass?
(a) She was sharp and could cut.
(b) She had been discarded like trash.
(c) She had been through a lot and had become new.
(d) She was bright and shiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joan envy about the seals?

2. In Chapter 5, Water Therapy, what was really happening with the lobster the two customers thought was dead?

3. In Chapter 11, Ebb and Flow, what forced Joan to end her solitude?

4. With what did Joan and her husband decorate their Christmas tree in Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights?

5. What term had Joan Erickson's late husband coined?

(see the answer key)

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