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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Call of the Seal, and Chapter 3, Seal Sense.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Joan's husband sent to live at age twelve?
(a) His grandparents' home in Kentucky.
(b) An orphanage.
(c) A boarding school in England.
(d) An Episcopalian boarding school.

2. How did Joan meet Joshua Cahoon?
(a) He was her neighbor on Cape Cod.
(b) He sat next to her at Larry's PX.
(c) He worked with her husband.
(d) He was her editor.

3. How old were Joan's children at the beginning of the book?
(a) They were infants.
(b) They were grown.
(c) Six and twelve.
(d) Three and ten.

4. In what town did Joan and her husband live?
(a) Louisville.
(b) Nyack.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Cincinnati.

5. In Chapter 3, Seal Sense Analysis, who gave Joan some clams he had dug up?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her younger son.
(c) Joshua Cahoon.
(d) The local pastor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the other patrons of Larry's PX talk about during Joan's first visit to the PX?

2. What news did Joan get about her house in the city after her return from the seal island?

3. What was Joan instructed to bring for her trip to the seal island?

4. Which of the following was not something that Joan achieved in her early twenties?

5. What was Larry's PX?

(see the answer key)

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