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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall is Merry?
(a) Four feet nine inches.
(b) Just above five feet.
(c) Five feet five inches.
(d) Close to six feet.

2. What does Swede's daughter do to the local post office and general store as a radical stunt?
(a) Bombs it.
(b) Bulldozes it.
(c) Sets it on fire.
(d) Robs it.

3. How far had Merry had been working from Swede's glove factory when Rita contacts him in Chapter 5?
(a) One hour.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Thirty minutes.

4. What kind of diary does Rita later make Swede give to her for Merry in Chapter 4?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Her Audrey Hepburn scrapbook.
(d) A stuttering diary.

5. What does Merry become temporarily interested in as a child that is associated with her grandmother?
(a) Presbyterianism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Baptism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that adolescents sought more of compared to the adults in his neighborhood?

2. What does the narrator say Dawn did as a way to distance herself from the stigma of being a beauty queen?

3. What is the name of Merry's hometown?

4. Who is the name of the person at the gas station that the narrator remembers the day the war ended?

5. Where is the bombing done by the Weathermen with which Swede believes Merry to be involved?

(see the answer key)

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