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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the narrator's voice best described?
(a) The voice of anger.
(b) The voice of angst.
(c) The voice of a child.
(d) The voice of ignorance.

2. Why does Sissie first taste beer?
(a) She does not taste the beer.
(b) To be polite.
(c) She wants to be glamorous like her mother.
(d) She has always been curious about it.

3. How does Sissie feel when she sees children throwing things at the stuck bird?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Furious.
(c) Horrified.
(d) Scared.

4. Which of the following things does Sissie notice about her uncle?
(a) He has small hands.
(b) He is very shaky.
(c) He has a bald head.
(d) His fingernails are well manicured.

5. Who jokingly offers to take the children on a boat?
(a) Sissie's uncle.
(b) A friend of Sissie's mother.
(c) A friend of Sissie's aunt.
(d) Sissie's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the idea to go to the island in the boat?

2. Whom does Sissie believe the burden of her family lies on?

3. In the second summer, how long ago did Jerry get into big trouble?

4. Who becomes angry with a woman when she offers something to Sissie during the first summer?

5. The reader can determine that the narrator has matured by the second summer after studying which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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