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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall: Chapters 6-12, 42-90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what location does Dean first go when he arrives in Calcasset, Maine?
(a) Evvie's house.
(b) A motel.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Andy's house.

2. When Dean is leaning toward accepting Ted's offer to help coach his team, he thinks to himself that he could at least counsel the kids not to take what action in the event any of them did become professional athletes?
(a) Give their money away frivolously.
(b) Get married.
(c) Get hooked on drugs.
(d) Push their bodies too hard.

3. How many times does Evvie repeat the same word to herself at the end of Fall: Chapter 1?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. Evvie tells Dean that her father had been a lobsterman for nearly how many years before he retired two years before the narrative present?
(a) 40.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 25.

5. Evvie tells Dean that the reason Tim had stayed in his hometown after medical school was that only by remaining there could he be viewed as what type of creature?
(a) A chameleon.
(b) A yeti.
(c) A centaur.
(d) A unicorn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which idiom-laden phrase does Evvie use to describe what had happened the one time Andy and Evvie had "earnestly tried to look meaningfully at each other" (17)?

2. Evvie's favorite client is a woman named "Nona Powell Brown, a professor at" (26) which university?

3. Which character asks Evvie many questions about Dean on Thanksgiving Day?

4. Which character meets Evvie in the parking lot on the day of the tree-planting ceremony celebrating Tim's life?

5. Evvie takes extreme exception to her father's sentiment during the Thanksgiving blessing that he is prouder of her for what feat than he is of any one of her other accomplishments?

(see the answer key)

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