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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 75 - 148).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Desma tell the postman as he scrambles off her land?
(a) Not to speak to Nora ever again.
(b) Not to steal from her garden ever again.
(c) Not to lay a hand on a piece of paper with her name on it ever again.
(d) Not to call her by her first husband's name ever again.

2. What is Nora's last name?
(a) Lark.
(b) Larson.
(c) Almeara.
(d) Ruiz.

3. Why does Nora claim not to be worried about the delay in her husband getting home?
(a) She has had a letter from him telling her he is OK.
(b) She feels in her bones he is alive.
(c) She has faith in his survival abilities because she has seen him overcome setbacks and challenges before.
(d) She talked to a friend who saw him in town recently.

4. What does Nora think her two older boys are off to do in the end of Part II?
(a) Look for their father.
(b) Try to sell the paper.
(c) Get married.
(d) Rob a bank.

5. What do Lurie and the coachman do for money?
(a) Steal from the ships in the harbor.
(b) Pick pockets.
(c) Make harnesses for horses.
(d) Dig up graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora find has happened at The Sentinel office when she visits it in town?

2. What word does Emmett object to in Nora's letter that she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

3. Who does Emmett take The Sentinel over from?

4. What is the name of the paper Nora's family runs?

5. What author does Obreht open the novel with a quote from?

(see the answer key)

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