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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Wild and Salty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the dress code at the fish market?
(a) White pants and black tee-shirts.
(b) Jeans or khaki pants with a tucked-in navy blue top.
(c) Black tee-shirts and overalls.
(d) Brown pants and red sweaters.

2. Which of the following actions was not something Joan did prior to her husband's arrival for Christmas at the beginning of Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights?
(a) Nailed a homemade wreath onto a tree.
(b) Built a snowman.
(c) Lit kerosene lanters and candles.
(d) Cooked the family's traditional holiday food.

3. Why did Joan feel that her previous hiking adventures had not tested her independence?
(a) They were easy trips without physical challenges.
(b) She went on the trips with others rather than going alone.
(c) She was a child on her previous trips.
(d) Someone besides herself had paid for her previous trips.

4. What did Joan's husband think when Joan made an angel in the snow?
(a) That she was childish.
(b) That she would freeze after laying in the cold, wet snow.
(c) That she was funny.
(d) That she had changed and become more free.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 9, Fogged In, how long a walk does Joan begin taking each day?
(a) A half-mile walk.
(b) A four-mile walk.
(c) A two-mile walk.
(d) A one-mile walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Joan left alone on Seal Island?

2. Why did Joan and her husband decide to spend Christmas together during their separation year?

3. What wall decoration from New Mexico made Joan think she was at a crossroads in her life?

4. What number did Joan wear in the town's New Year's Day race in Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet?

5. How did Joan describe her bicycle?

(see the answer key)

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