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

2. What career loss did Joan suffer at the beginning of Chapter 9, Fogged In?
(a) Her publisher went out of business.
(b) Her agent retired, leaving her agentless.
(c) Her editor quit & the new editor hated Joan's writing.
(d) Her collaborator moved & ended their collaboration.

3. In Chapter 5, Water Therapy, who invites Joan to have a glass of wine and talk?
(a) Her neighbor.
(b) Joshua Cahoon.
(c) Her coworkers at the fish market.
(d) Joan Erickson.

4. What did the wife of Joan Erickson's cousin do for a living?
(a) She was a psychologist.
(b) She was an Episcopal priest.
(c) She was an actress.
(d) She was a seamstress.

5. What did studying her old photos reveal to Joan about herself?
(a) That she longed for a close family again.
(b) That she had been a lonely, homely child.
(c) That she didn't look like her other relatives.
(d) That she fit in by being what others wanted her to be.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Joan and her husband meet?

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

4. What did Joan think her role in her marriage would be?

5. What color was the inside of Nickerson's Fish Market painted?

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