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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Five Points.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator reflect on regarding her own mother?
(a) She had potential to be someone great.
(b) She never truly loved her.
(c) She might not have known her as well as she thought.
(d) She was a saint to live with her abusive husband.

2. How does the narrator know Flora Grieves?
(a) She is her neighbor.
(b) She is her dead mother's friend.
(c) She is her mother.
(d) She is her sister.

3. Where does Brenda meet with her lover?
(a) A friend's apartment.
(b) Her home.
(c) His trailer.
(d) A hotel.

4. Which of the following is NOT something that the narrator's mother once thought about Flora?
(a) She was stoic.
(b) She was a troublemaker.
(c) She was optimistic.
(d) She was noble.

5. "Friend of My Youth" is a story about _____________________.
(a) greed and envy.
(b) the gap between generations.
(c) the search for love.
(d) prejudice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had been Ellie's nurse?

2. Why did the narrator's mother leave the farm?

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Brenda's relationship with Neil?

4. Brenda's lover tells her about a/an _______________ family which moved to his hometown.

5. What does Brenda realize after her first fight with Neil?

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