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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ben's advice to Elaine about going to the art retrospective?
(a) He tells her to go and pretend she's having a good time.
(b) He tells her to go because she'll enjoy it.
(c) He tells her not to go and instead take a holiday with him.
(d) He tells her not to go.

2. What does the narrator compare time to?
(a) Fire.
(b) Earth.
(c) Air.
(d) Water.

3. What does the narrator say she's not ready to give up, even at fifty, though it's a nuisance?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Hope.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Memory.

4. How old is the narrator in the book's first flashback?
(a) A toddler.
(b) A college grad.
(c) A baby.
(d) A teenager.

5. At the store, what does someone try to steal from Elaine?
(a) Her jewelry.
(b) Her package.
(c) Her wallet.
(d) Her watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective best describes the narrator and Cordelia on the streetcar?

2. Why doesn't Elaine want to look at her paintings?

3. In the present time, where does the narrator look as she walks down the street?

4. What are the girls playing when they put Elaine into the hole?

5. During the Christmas parade, what does Cordelia scold Elaine for after her father leaves?

(see the answer key)

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