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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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) Taxes.
(c) Her children's education.
(d) The mortgage.
2. When Joan's father died, which relative angered Joan by not attending his funeral?
(a) Joan's husband.
(b) Joan's brother.
(c) Joan's younger son.
(d) Joan's older son.
3. In what kind of family was Joan's husband raised?
(a) An artistic family.
(b) A musical family.
(c) An alcoholic family.
(d) A diabetic family.
4. What number did Joan wear in the town's New Year's Day race in Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty-two.
(d) Seventy-six.
5. Who hauled and chopped wood for Joan during her stay at the cottage?
(a) Joan.
(b) The fish market owner.
(c) Joan's husband.
(d) Joshua Cahoon.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was the cottage to which Joan wanted to retreat at the beginning of the book?
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?
3. How did Joan's husband see his primary role in their marriage?
4. Why did Joan want a job at the fish market?
5. What kind of car did Joan drive at the beginning of the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. What incident told Joan that the other workers at the fish market had accepted her?
2. What was Joan's husband's childhood like, and how did his childhood experiences affect the couple's marriage?
3. In Chapter 4, Riptide, how did Joan relate the state of her marriage to a riptide?
4. When Joan and her husband spent Christmas together at the cottage, what changes did each of them display?
5. What was ironic about how Joan felt once her husband drove away from their house on the day they separated?
6. Why did Joan and her husband decide to separate?
7. In Chapter 6, Waves of Truth, why did Joan get angry at the fish market customer who looked like Santa Claus?
8. What kind of job did Joan get in Chapter 4, Riptide, and why didn't she ask her husband for financial help instead of getting a job?
9. What was Joan's day with the seals like?
10. How did Joan fare in the footrace in Chapter 8, Getting My Feet Wet, and what did the race symbolize to her?
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