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

2. Which of the following was not something that Joan achieved in her early twenties?
(a) She sold a magazine story.
(b) She worked as a fashion model in New York.
(c) She worked in the African bush.
(d) She attended drama school.

3. What did Joan think her role in her marriage would be?
(a) An equal partner.
(b) The breadwinner.
(c) Pampered housewife.
(d) Nurturer and caregiver.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Ebb Tide, what did Joan's husband announce?
(a) That he wanted a divorce.
(b) That he had cancer.
(c) That he was taking a job hundreds of miles away.
(d) That he had a secret son from a previous romance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Joan and her family lived in their big old family house?

2. How did the other patrons of Larry's PX respond when Joan entered?

3. Why did Joan want a job at the fish market?

4. In Chapter 4, Riptide, which of the following was not a task Joan had to do in her job at Nickerson's Fish Market?

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

(see the answer key)

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