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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dickie doing when Portia meets him?
(a) Coming home from work.
(b) Getting ready for work.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Doing yard work.

2. Who else noticed a change in Portia, besides Matchett?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Major Brutt.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Anna.

3. What does Matchett think has changed about Portia while she was at Waikiki?
(a) She is more timid.
(b) She is less confident.
(c) She is more outspoken.
(d) She doesn't seem happy.

4. Who sends Anna the bouquet of pink carnations?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Robert Pidgeon.
(c) Major Brutt.
(d) Eddie.

5. How does Portia feel about herself when the teacher reprimands her?
(a) She will never amount to anything, and should stop trying.
(b) She is just another teenage girl, no different from the rest of her class.
(c) She is somehow different, and less, than all the other girls are.
(d) She is somehow more mature than the rest of her class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of Eddie's character flaws to be revealed?

2. How does Major Brutt feel about Eddie?

3. Who told Matchett when Portia was born?

4. What did Eddie to do Anna that upset her?

5. In what time does the novel begin?

(see the answer key)

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