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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Elaine's friends tell her about their bullying?
(a) That they are trying to help her improve herself.
(b) That they are bigger and stronger and she must obey.
(c) That they are smarter and can outwit her.
(d) That they are preparing her for the real world.

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

4. What do the two women Elaine hears talking about her at the Smeath house call her?
(a) a poor beggar.
(b) A wildcat.
(c) An urchin.
(d) A heathen.

5. How did Elaine feel about coming to her art retrospective?
(a) She was excited about going but worried about the expense.
(b) She wanted to go, but only stay for one day.
(c) She didn't want to go.
(d) She was thrilled and couldn't wait to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective did people use to describe Toronto in the past?

2. Who does Elaine pray to instead of God?

3. What does Elaine try to do instead of playing with her friends?

4. What is wrong with Grace Smeath's mother?

5. What does Cordelia want to punish Elaine for, after the incident with the cold water?

(see the answer key)

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