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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 147-176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's profession before retiring?
(a) Police officer.
(b) College professor.
(c) Housewife.
(d) Dock worker.

2. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?
(a) With another woman.
(b) Dead.
(c) In jail.
(d) On a boat.

3. What does access to money allow Mr. Vercueil to do?
(a) Study.
(b) Drink.
(c) Pay for his gambling habit.
(d) Pay his debts.

4. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her sister.

5. What does the narrator ask Florence about?
(a) If she can clean the homeless person's clothes.
(b) How her husband is doing.
(c) If she wants a puppy.
(d) The troubles in the township.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator live?

2. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?

3. How does the narrator call the house of Parliament?

4. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?

5. What does the narrator tell the young boy to do?

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