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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do others in the community feel about Mrs. Fosdick?
(a) They value her company.
(b) They feel that she visits too often.
(c) They wish she would visit more often.
(d) They dislike her.

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

4. What does Joanna reveal to Mrs. Todd?
(a) That she has decided to return to Dunnet Landing.
(b) That she has fallen ill.
(c) That she has committed the ultimate sin.
(d) That she has decided to stay on the island.

5. Who is the one person Mrs. Todd doesn't want to see at the reunion?
(a) Captain Bowden.
(b) Sarah Jane Blackett.
(c) William Blackett.
(d) Sant Bowden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Littlepage react to the narrator's comments?

2. What advice does Joanna give Mrs. Todd?

3. How does Mrs. Todd react to Joanna's revelation?

4. Which object in the novel best characterizes the theme of passage into another life?

5. What time of year does the story take place?

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