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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet, and Chapter 9, Fogged In.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the church Christmas pageant that Joan and her husband attended n Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights, what were the children dressed as instead of shepherds?
(a) Fishermen.
(b) Angels.
(c) Roman soldiers.
(d) Kings.

3. What made Joan miss her sons at the end of Chapter 5, Water Therapy?
(a) A football game that reminded her of her son's school days.
(b) An approaching holiday.
(c) A phone call from her youngest son.
(d) The young men who work at the fish market.

4. 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) Lit kerosene lanters and candles.
(c) Cooked the family's traditional holiday food.
(d) Built a snowman.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements was not one of Joan's thoughts about the remark that she had everything she wanted?

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

3. In Chapter 4, Riptide, with what did Joan think she needed to fall in love?

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. Where would Joan go before she went to meetings with editors?

(see the answer key)

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