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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose lighter is used at the movie theatre?
(a) Dickie's.
(b) Clara's.
(c) Eddie's.
(d) Daphne's.

2. How does Portia feel about school?
(a) She doesn't like it and gets in trouble a lot.
(b) She enjoys it because it's a challenge.
(c) She enjoys it because it's a break from her home.
(d) She doesn't mind it, but isn't excited about it.

3. What is Portia's last memory of her mother?
(a) Driving her mother to the train station.
(b) Portia doesn't remember her mother at all.
(c) Driving her mother to the clinic.
(d) Waving goodbye to her mother from the deck of a boat.

4. In what time does the novel begin?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1830s.
(d) 1970s.

5. Thomas states that people are "minor in everything but" what?
(a) Their passions.
(b) Their work.
(c) Their communities.
(d) Their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else noticed a change in Portia, besides Matchett?

2. How old is Portia?

3. What type of attraction does Eddie deny exists between himself and Portia?

4. Who sends Anna the bouquet of pink carnations?

5. Who comes in while Major Brutt and Thomas are talking?

(see the answer key)

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