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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During her stay at the cottage, what fact did Joan not reveal to her neighbors and coworkers about her marriage?
(a) That it was a sham and she was not truly married.
(b) That she and her husband were separated.
(c) That she was married to a much younger man.
(d) That she was married to a man who had been in prison.

2. In Chapter 4, Riptide, which of the following was not a task Joan had to do in her job at Nickerson's Fish Market?
(a) Hauling and weighing fish.
(b) Dealing with customers.
(c) Climbing up to the lobster tanks.
(d) Catching fish.

3. What did Joan's father-in-law do for a living?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a plumber.
(c) He was a comedian.
(d) He was a lawyer.

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

5. 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 useful in a job, unlike them.
(c) She was free while they had to live by their husbands' rules.
(d) She was a writer.

6. What costume Joan did Joan wear for the New Year's Day race?
(a) A mermaid costume.
(b) A Little Red Riding Hood costume.
(c) A Cinderella costume.
(d) A wicked witch costume.

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

8. What did the other patrons of Larry's PX talk about during Joan's first visit to the PX?
(a) The bad economy for fishing that year.
(b) A local murder.
(c) Joan's separation from her husband.
(d) The seals in the harbor.

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

10. What did Joan envy about the seals?
(a) Their swimming skills.
(b) Their warm layer of body fat.
(c) Their cuteness.
(d) Their home in the ocean.

11. Why did Joan and her husband decide to spend Christmas together during their separation year?
(a) Neither of them wanted to be alone.
(b) They missed each other.
(c) They wanted to make Joan's ailing mother happy.
(d) They wanted to make a show of unity for their children.

12. When did Nickerson's Fish Market close for the winter?
(a) At the end of December.
(b) At Christmas.
(c) At the beginning of January.
(d) At Thanksgiving.

13. In Chapter 2, The Call of the Seal, what was Joan's only daily outing for her first three weeks on the island?
(a) Going to the laundromat.
(b) Picking her daughter up from school.
(c) Going to the post office.
(d) Walking her dog.

14. Which of the following statements was not one of Joan's thoughts about the remark that she had everything she wanted?
(a) She did have everything she wanted.
(b) Women got used to wanting only what was available.
(c) What she had was a far cry from what she really desired.
(d) She had everything she was told she should want.

15. Who hauled and chopped wood for Joan during her stay at the cottage?
(a) Joshua Cahoon.
(b) The fish market owner.
(c) Joan's husband.
(d) Joan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Joan's relatives got multiple scholarship offers from Ivy League colleges?

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

3. Who honked her horn and flashed her lights and encouraged an exhausted Joan to continue the race when Joan was about to quit?

4. How long was the town's New Year's Day race?

5. How did Joan meet Joshua Cahoon?

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