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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. Why did Joan's old book club always end up canceling their December meetings?
(a) The women had no time to read during the holidays.
(b) The women were involved in the church's holiday play.
(c) Winter weather made travel too hazardous.
(d) The book club members left town for the holidays.

2. Why did Joan want a job at the fish market?
(a) She didn't want to ask her husband for money.
(b) She had taxes to pay.
(c) She wanted to work with Joshua Cahoon.
(d) She wanted to feel like a local woman.

3. Why did Joan want to enter the New Year's Day race?
(a) She had neglected her body and wanted to be more fit.
(b) She ran for charity.
(c) She ran with her new neighbors and coworkers.
(d) She wanted to prove she was still fast at her age.

4. In Chapter 5, Water Therapy, what was really happening with the lobster the two customers thought was dead?
(a) It was sleeping.
(b) It was molting.
(c) It was a plastic lobster.
(d) It was ill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town did Joan and her husband live?

2. What kind of car did Joan drive at the beginning of the book?

3. From whom did Joan get the wobbly kitchen table in the cottage?

4. What activity did Joan's older son and his wife share?

5. How long had Joan and her family lived in their big old family house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ebb tide and how did Joan relate the concept of ebb tide to her own life?

2. In Chapter 7, Silent Seas, Silent Nights, why did Joan mentally compare her marriage to several boats which had gotten frozen in place in the harbor?

3. What was ironic about how Joan felt once her husband drove away from their house on the day they separated?

4. When Joan and her husband spent Christmas together at the cottage, what changes did each of them display?

5. What incident told Joan that the other workers at the fish market had accepted her?

6. Who was Joan Erikson and how did Joan meet her?

7. In Chapter 9, Fogged In, why was Joan concerned about her writing career?

8. In Chapter 4, Riptide, how did Joan relate the state of her marriage to a riptide?

9. How did Joshua Cahoon differ from Joan's husband?

10. How did Joshua Cahoon treat Joan when he took her to the seal island?

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