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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the event held?
(a) North Country.
(b) Dunnet Hill.
(c) North County.
(d) Bowden Park.

2. Which character in the novel best symbolizes the theme of aging and the passage of time?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Mrs. Fosdick.
(c) Mrs. Todd.
(d) Mrs. Blackett.

3. How does the narrator characterize Captain Littlepage's reaction to Gaffett's story?
(a) He believes that too much time at sea can affect your thinking.
(b) He believes that Gaffett made the story up.
(c) He believes that the story is true.
(d) He believes that sailing is dangerous.

4. Why doesn't Sant make the most of his potential?
(a) Lack of ambition.
(b) His illness.
(c) Financial reasons.
(d) His father's alcoholism.

5. What does the narrator compare Dunnet Landing's cottage windows to?
(a) Windows into the lives and souls of the people in town.
(b) Knowing eyes that watch over the community members.
(c) Knowing eyes that look toward the sea.
(d) Gingerbread windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cause of the Captain's experience?

2. On Shell-Heap Island, the narrator muses that each person has a place inside in which what is kept?

3. Under which pretense does Mrs. Todd come to the schoolhouse to visit the narrator?

4. What does Mrs. Todd need to get while visiting Mrs. Blackett?

5. What does the narrator reflect on at the beginning of Chapter 21?

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