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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1985 January-June.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the nurses dress the patients in at New Year's?
(a) New hospital gowns.
(b) Fancy clothes.
(c) Tuxedos and ballgowns.
(d) Street clothes.

2. What does Annie recall her mother telling Annie it was their duty to do?
(a) Volunteer at the hospital.
(b) Brush their hair 100 strokes before going to bed.
(c) Take food to shut-ins.
(d) Give coins to beggars.

3. How do Annie's sons react when visitors laugh at Blanche?
(a) They reprimand them.
(b) They are offended.
(c) They cry.
(d) They laugh too.

4. What is an important theme in the book?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Love.
(c) Coming of age.
(d) The power of memory.

5. Annie's mother can no longer remember _______________.
(a) Her birthday.
(b) Her address.
(c) Her age.
(d) Her name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Annie NOT say she gets from her mother.

2. On a shopping trip Annie sees a woman ____________________ who reminds her of her mother.

3. From what did Annie suffer when she was eighteen-years-old?

4. Whose changes does Annie describe?

5. How many years did Annie's mother wear gray or black clothing in mourning for her mother?

(see the answer key)

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