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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Portia?
(a) A friend of Mick's from school.
(b) The daughter of the town banker.
(c) A young woman who boards with them.
(d) The woman who cooks for the Kellys.

2. How does Mr. Singer feel about his four routine visitors?
(a) He thinks they are all very foolish people.
(b) He is tired of hearing the same thing over and over.
(c) He wishes they would visit less often.
(d) It is better to be with them than to be alone too long.

3. What about Jake Blount seems to stand out most to Brannon?
(a) The way the man changed.
(b) The way the man drank.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) The way the man looked.

4. What does Mick say to Portia about God?
(a) She believes in God and in Santa Claus.
(b) She doesn't believe in God any more than she believes in Santa Claus.
(c) That God is Santa Claus.
(d) That God is not real, but that Santa Claus is.

5. What has Jake Blount been so upset about, even before he came to this town?
(a) The long hours he has to work at the Sunny Dixie Show.
(b) He doesn't have enough beer to drink.
(c) The few rich people versus the many poor.
(d) The way he has to work to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening pages of Chapter 3, what are Mr. and Mrs. Brannon arguing about?

2. No matter what she is doing, what is always going on in the back of Mick's mind?

3. What magazine does Mick look at when she went to the library?

4. What happens when Mick talked to Mr. Singer about getting a job?

5. As she sat on the landing listening to Miss Brown's radio, where did Mick want be?

(see the answer key)

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