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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What conclusion about the narrator's beliefs can be drawn from her conversation with Captain Littlepage?
(a) She believes that sailors cannot be trusted.
(b) She believes that the Captain is crazy.
(c) She does not believe in life after death.
(d) She tends not to believe in Gaffert's story.

2. What emotion prompts Joanna to take such drastic measures once the engagement is broken off?
(a) Hopelessness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Humiliation.

3. What ultimately happens to Joanna's ex-fiancé?
(a) He falls ill.
(b) He marries someone else.
(c) He spends the rest of his life in Dunnet Landing.
(d) He spends the rest of his life looking for Joanna.

4. What does the narrator assert during the beginning of her conversation with Captain Littlepage in Chapter 5?
(a) That there must certainly be life after death.
(b) That no one can know the answer.
(c) That someday "everyone will know."
(d) That death must be the end.

5. Why does the Captain believe he knows "the truth" about life after death?
(a) He is a deeply religious man.
(b) His religious experiences.
(c) He himself had a near-death experience.
(d) His experiences while waiting for rescue from a shipwreck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Mrs. Todd marry her first love?

2. How long has Elijah lived alone?

3. What distracts the narrator from her work later in the day after the funeral procession?

4. Where does Mrs. Blackett live?

5. To which annual event does Mrs. Todd invite the narrator?

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