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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the bird stuck in?
(a) Scum in the water.
(b) Mud.
(c) In a discarded net.
(d) A piece of trash.

2. What do the children begin throwing at the stuck bird?
(a) Food.
(b) Trash.
(c) Cups.
(d) Stones.

3. What type of innocence would be considered a theme in the book?
(a) Innocence of the elderly.
(b) Innocence of a child.
(c) Innocence of love.
(d) Innocence of animals.

4. What do Sissie's parents bicker about in the first summer?
(a) Whether the family should leave.
(b) Taking the children out on the lake.
(c) Whether she should get a haircut.
(d) Whether they should be allowing children in the tavern.

5. Which of the following describes the setting of the book?
(a) An tavern by the ocean.
(b) A tavern on a lake.
(c) A tavern in a neighborhood.
(d) An urban tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the relationship among the children in the first summer the reader sees at the tavern.

2. What is Jimmy's occupation?

3. Which of the following is the name of Sissie's oldest brother?

4. Whom does Sissie play a game with at the beginning of the story?

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

(see the answer key)

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