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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. How did the seals respond when Joan dove into the ocean?
(a) They swam alongside her.
(b) They ignored her.
(c) They swam away from her.
(d) They attacked her.

2. Where would Joan go before she went to meetings with editors?
(a) Larry's PX.
(b) Her oldest son's house.
(c) Church.
(d) A local bar.

3. In Chapter 11, Ebb and Flow, what was Joan hired to do for the film crew?
(a) Iron.
(b) Type.
(c) Cook.
(d) Drive.

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

5. Which of the following is not something Joan woke up to the morning after her husband's arrival for Christmas?
(a) The sound of her husband shoveling snow from the drive.
(b) A warm house.
(c) A cup of fresh coffee on her bedside table.
(d) Christmas carolers at the front door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hazel do for a living?

2. How many pounds of clams did Joshua Cahoon like to dig in a single day?

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

4. What action made the clams spit, i.e. make holes in the sand that revealed where they were?

5. In Chapter 2, The Call of the Seal, what time do the birds begin chattering in the morning at Joan's cottage?

(see the answer key)

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