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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the literary device used to show similarities among the years?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Imagery.

2. Which of the following indicates that time has passed between the first two parts of the book?
(a) The changing seasons.
(b) The narrator's education.
(c) The age of the tavern.
(d) Maturation in the narration.

3. What season is it at the end of the book?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

4. When Sissie revisits the bar as an adult, which adjective does she use to describe it?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Cheery.
(c) Fatigued.
(d) Faded.

5. Describe the relationship among the children in the first summer the reader sees at the tavern.
(a) Sissie spends a lot of time with her brothers but does not like doing so.
(b) Sissie is afraid of her brothers.
(c) Sissie wants to be just like her brothers.
(d) Sissie is close with her brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before entering the bar as an adult, how does Sissie feel?

2. Whom does the mysterious man remind Sissie of?

3. What does Sissie focus on as her father takes a drink of his beverage in the second summer?

4. What does Sissie call her mother?

5. In Part 2, where is Frank?

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