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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I: The Call.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many photographs are included in the text prior to Chapter I: The Call?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

2. Vivienne is using her spare bedroom to house a family from which country?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Yemen.
(c) Syria.
(d) Sudan.

3. What type of family heirlooms did Victor steal during Joan's funeral?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Rare coins.
(c) Quilts.
(d) Pieces of silverware.

4. In what year did Joan meet her best friend Vivienne in first grade at "their tony New York girls' school" (16)?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1942.

5. How many photographs are contained within the mailer Noah finds in Chapter 1: The Call?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Noah's mother's name?

2. Noah thinks about the fact that which group of people "used to distinguish between senectus (still lively) and decrepitus (done for)" (12)?

3. Noah assumes that which character had taken the photographs he finds in Chapter 1: The Call?

4. The novel entitled Akin includes an epigraph consisting of how many definitions of the word 'akin'?

5. One of the three objects Noah keeps within Chapter 1: The Call is a sheaf of what kind of poetry written by his younger sister on Thanksgiving of 2002?

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