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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Elaine turn soon after the incident with the hole?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Nine.

2. When Elaine dreams of Toronto, where is she?
(a) In the sewers.
(b) Lost.
(c) On the bus.
(d) At home.

3. In the present time, where does the narrator look as she walks down the street?
(a) Up at the sky.
(b) Into all the shop windows.
(c) At the women's clothes and hair.
(d) At the sidewalk.

4. What makes the narrator remember Cordelia?
(a) Getting a postcard.
(b) Coming back to the town where they knew each other.
(c) Finding an old photograph of the two of them together.
(d) Running across a mutual friend.

5. What are the girls playing when they put Elaine into the hole?
(a) Bloody Mary.
(b) Mary of Guelders.
(c) Mary of Modena.
(d) Mary, Queen of Scots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she's not ready to give up, even at fifty, though it's a nuisance?

2. What shape is the hole Cordelia begins to dig in the back yard?

3. What relationship does Stephen have to the narrator?

4. What does John make for a living?

5. How old is the narrator in the book's first flashback?

(see the answer key)

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