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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who told Joan she had everything she wanted for Christmas?
(a) Her boss at the fish market.
(b) A bearded customer who looked like Santa Claus.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her husband.

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

5. What activity did Joan's older son and his wife share?
(a) Golf.
(b) Biking.
(c) Skiing.
(d) Roller skating.

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

7. What kind of car did Joan drive at the beginning of the book?
(a) A Volvo.
(b) A Chevrolet Impala.
(c) A Mercedes.
(d) A Toyota Camry.

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

9. What did most people on the island think Joan was in town to do?
(a) Sell her family's cottage.
(b) Work on a book.
(c) Recover from an automobile accident.
(d) Paint and sell her art work.

10. What did Joan's neighbor think of Joan's job at the fish market?
(a) That it was work Joan would love.
(b) That it would pay Joan well.
(c) That it was easy work.
(d) That it was men's work.

11. What number did Joan wear in the town's New Year's Day race in Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Seventy-six.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifty-two.

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

13. In what kind of family was Joan's husband raised?
(a) A diabetic family.
(b) An artistic family.
(c) A musical family.
(d) An alcoholic family.

14. 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) Climbing up to the lobster tanks.
(c) Catching fish.
(d) Dealing with customers.

15. How long had Joan and her family lived in their big old family house?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Two months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joan see on her front lawn as she left her house in Chapter 1, Ebb Tide?

2. When Joan's father died, which relative angered Joan by not attending his funeral?

3. With what did Joan and her husband decorate their Christmas tree in Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights?

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

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

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