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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Humpbacks, A Meeting, Little Sister Pond, The Roses and Blackberries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has a captain in 'Humpbacks' seen a whale playing with?
(a) Bubbles.
(b) Life savers.
(c) Driftwood.
(d) Seaweed.

2. What is thriving at the Boston Hospital?
(a) The trees.
(b) The nurses.
(c) The children.
(d) Death.

3. What does the narrator spend time looking at in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?
(a) Books.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The water.
(d) A man.

4. What does the Robin call in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Hooray.
(b) Help.
(c) Rain.
(d) Plunder.

5. What color is the snake in 'Rain in Ohio'?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe her thoughts in the third part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

2. How many people does the narrator walk through the whorehouse with in 'An Old Whorehouse'?

3. How does the narrator describe the movement of the creature described in the second part of 'Little Sister Pond'?

4. What does the narrator want to do at the end of 'The Meeting'?

5. How does the narrator get into the whorehouse?

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