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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Riptide, and Chapter 5, Water Therapy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who called Joan the evening after she returned from the seal island?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Joshua Cahoon.

2. What is ebb tide?
(a) The intermediate time when the tide neither rises nor falls.
(b) The time when the tide falls.
(c) The time when the tide rises.
(d) The time when it floods.

3. Which of Joan's relatives got multiple scholarship offers from Ivy League colleges?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her youngest son.
(c) Her older brother.
(d) Her oldest son.

4. What did the other patrons of Larry's PX talk about during Joan's first visit to the PX?
(a) The seals in the harbor.
(b) A local murder.
(c) Joan's separation from her husband.
(d) The bad economy for fishing that year.

5. Where did Joan and her husband go to work for the Peace Corps in the early days of their marriage?
(a) Africa.
(b) The Philippines.
(c) Brazil.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Joan ask to take her in his boat to the seal island?

2. In Chapter 4, Riptide, what did Joan get up each morning to watch?

3. How old were Joan's children at the beginning of the book?

4. What did Joan think her role in her marriage would be?

5. What did Joan envy about the seals?

(see the answer key)

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