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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Blackett point out to the narrator as they make their way through the countryside?
(a) Her husband's first home.
(b) Her childhood home.
(c) Her sister's home.
(d) Her brother's home.

2. What does the narrator notice about Elijah's house?
(a) The furniture seems luxurious.
(b) The house seems befitting of a fisherman.
(c) Everything must be just the way his wife left it.
(d) He must have completely remodeled after his wife passed away.

3. How does the narrator react to Joanna's story?
(a) She is saddened.
(b) She is intrigued.
(c) She is disinterested.
(d) She is glad her own life is better than Joanna's.

4. On Shell-Heap Island, the narrator muses that each person has a place inside in which what is kept?
(a) Our greatest humiliations.
(b) Great regrets and great happiness.
(c) Our deepest emotions.
(d) Our greatest sorrows.

5. Which word best describes the furnishings in the best room in Elijah's house?
(a) Dark.
(b) Sparing.
(c) Threadbare.
(d) Valuable.

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

7. What had Mrs. Todd been doing prior to her evening visit with Mrs. Fosdick and the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Making herbal teas.
(b) Making cough drops.
(c) Making syrup.
(d) Making spruce beer.

8. How does the narrator engage Elijah in conversation?
(a) She asks him about his wife.
(b) She asks what he will be cooking for dinner.
(c) She talks to him about about fishing.
(d) She asks to accompany him on a walk.

9. What does the narrator say the idle lobster boats tied up at the shoreline seem to be doing at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) Taking an afternoon bath.
(b) Soaking in the sun.
(c) Waiting for work.
(d) Taking an afternoon nap in the sun.

10. Why doesn't the plant Mrs. Todd mentioned thrive at the Bowden's?
(a) It doesn't get enough water.
(b) There isn't enough sunlight.
(c) The Bowdens don't take care of it.
(d) The climate isn't right.

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

12. What punishment does Joanna inflict on herself?
(a) Endless work on the island.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Isolation from others.

13. When did the story of Joanna occur?
(a) When Mrs. Fosdick was a child.
(b) The previous summer.
(c) When Mrs. Todd was newly married.
(d) Several years ago.

14. When does Joanna ask Mrs. Todd to return?
(a) In a month.
(b) In a year.
(c) Never.
(d) The next day.

15. What had others told Elijah would happen with time after his wife's passing?
(a) They said the pain would ease up.
(b) They said he would begin to forget her.
(c) They said he would meet someone else.
(d) They said the pain would continue forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hobby of Elijah's surprises the narrator?

2. Who does Mrs. Todd begin talking about Sant Bowden with?

3. Who is the one person Mrs. Todd doesn't want to see at the reunion?

4. What does Elijah do during their conversation that surprises the narrator?

5. What advice does Joanna give Mrs. Todd?

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