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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following makes the setting in the second summer seem rural?
(a) The theme of alcohol.
(b) The bar.
(c) Sissie's upbringing.
(d) The words that characters use.

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

3. What inanimate object does Sissie compare herself to in the second summer?
(a) An island.
(b) A boat.
(c) A lake.
(d) A tree.

4. By which of the following items do Sissie's brothers wait?
(a) A stable.
(b) A car.
(c) A boat.
(d) A bar stool.

5. Where do Sissie's brothers want to go?
(a) In a boat.
(b) To a friend's house.
(c) To the convenience store.
(d) Inside the tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Sissie's father offer to let her row the boat?

2. After witnessing a character vomiting, where does Sissie wish that she was?

3. What does Sissie's world revolve around in the first summer?

4. Whom is Sissie afraid of the second summer?

5. What day of the week is it in the second summer?

(see the answer key)

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