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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the dress code at the fish market?
(a) White pants and black tee-shirts.
(b) Jeans or khaki pants with a tucked-in navy blue top.
(c) Brown pants and red sweaters.
(d) Black tee-shirts and overalls.

2. 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 it floods.
(d) The time when the tide rises.

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

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

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

6. What wall decoration from New Mexico made Joan think she was at a crossroads in her life?
(a) A painting of an Indian village.
(b) A cross made of mesquite wood.
(c) A clock.
(d) A painting of a crossroads.

7. Which of Joan's relatives got multiple scholarship offers from Ivy League colleges?
(a) Her older brother.
(b) Her youngest son.
(c) Her oldest son.
(d) Her cousin.

8. Which of the following is not something for which Joan's writing money paid during her marriage?
(a) Her children's education.
(b) Most of the family's extras.
(c) The mortgage.
(d) Taxes.

9. How did Joan Erickson keep herself strong and healthy?
(a) She swam a lot.
(b) She took vitamins every day.
(c) She was a vegetarian.
(d) She walked a couple of miles every day.

10. What was Larry's PX?
(a) A restaurant where the local fishermen hung out.
(b) A school.
(c) A military store.
(d) A fishing boat.

11. 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 vandalized.
(d) It had been damaged in a fire.

12. 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) Christmas carolers at the front door.
(c) A warm house.
(d) A cup of fresh coffee on her bedside table.

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

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

15. Once Joan's husband left in Chapter 1, Ebb Tide, how did Joan react?
(a) She rejoiced.
(b) She became afraid.
(c) She begged him to come back.
(d) She cried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What costume Joan did Joan wear for the New Year's Day race?

2. Who hauled and chopped wood for Joan during her stay at the cottage?

3. What lesson did the seals teach Joan?

4. What did Joan's father-in-law do for a living?

5. What number did Joan wear in the town's New Year's Day race in Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet?

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