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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Low Tide, and Chapter 13, Treading Water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, Waves of Truth, how many years had passed since Joan's sons had spent Christmas with her?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Eight.

2. What news did Joan get about her house in the city after her return from the seal island?
(a) It had been painted.
(b) It had been sold.
(c) It had been damaged in a fire.
(d) It had been vandalized.

3. How much money was a basket of clams worth?
(a) Sixty-five dollars.
(b) Fifteen or twenty dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) Twelve dollars.

4. Why did Joan think she was better off than the rich local women who bought fish from her in the market?
(a) She was a writer.
(b) She was useful in a job, unlike them.
(c) Her children were grown.
(d) She was free while they had to live by their husbands' rules.

5. Why did Joan want to enter the New Year's Day race?
(a) She wanted to prove she was still fast at her age.
(b) She had neglected her body and wanted to be more fit.
(c) She ran for charity.
(d) She ran with her new neighbors and coworkers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, Low Tide, what appliance in Joan's cottage broke?

2. Where was Joan's husband sent to live at age twelve?

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

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

5. In Chapter 11, Ebb and Flow, who came to Cape Cod to shoot a film?

(see the answer key)

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