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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Almeda's last name?
(a) Ross.
(b) Roth.
(c) Robinson.
(d) Morton.

2. Why does Almeda not venture outside to find out about the noises?
(a) She is afraid.
(b) She thinks someone else will look into it.
(c) She never goes out after dark.
(d) She doesn't think it is any of her business.

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

4. What does Almeda wonder when she hears the sounds in the night?
(a) If the alley cats are getting into trash cans.
(b) If the neighborhood bully is bashing mailboxes again.
(c) If someone has been murdered.
(d) If the couple next door is having a party.

5. Who had been Ellie's nurse?
(a) Aimee Anders.
(b) Millie Frantz.
(c) Marlene Winner.
(d) Audrey Atkinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the daughter who was responsible for running the shop in #27?

2. What kind of business does the man in #41 run?

3. How did the family eventually lose their shop?

4. What is the name of Brenda's lover's hometown?

5. What does the narrator reflect on regarding her own mother?

(see the answer key)

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