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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 36 - 70).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Michael's brother's "place in the sky"?
(a) The apartment's roof.
(b) The hydro pole.
(c) The plane.
(d) The fire escape.

2. What is Michael's mother's name?
(a) Betty.
(b) Clara.
(c) Hettie.
(d) Ruth.

3. What is Francis dissatisfied with by the age of 14?
(a) The world and his destined place in it.
(b) His friends.
(c) His lack of dental care.
(d) His inability to read.

4. What does Michael's mother's generation call the place where she was born?
(a) The Reaches.
(b) The Congo.
(c) The West Indies.
(d) The Netherlands.

5. What book does Michael use as a pretense to sit next to Aisha at the library?
(a) The War of the Worlds.
(b) The Theban Plays.
(c) The Chronicles of Narnia.
(d) Sense and Sensibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Michael and Francis snowball cars during the winter?

2. Where do Aisha and Michael often go to talk and be together?

3. What does Ruth have in her hand when Michael finds her after she wanders off alone in Part II?

4. What does Ruth do on Francis's birthday one year, many years after his death?

5. What does Mrs. Henry do for a living?

(see the answer key)

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