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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joe selling when he meets Dorcas?
(a) Brooms.
(b) Cosmetics.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Encyclopedias.

2. What do Violet and Joe do all night the first time they meet?
(a) Fight.
(b) Eat.
(c) Talk.
(d) Dance.

3. How is Alice Manfred related to Dorcas?
(a) Alice is Dorcas's aunt.
(b) Alice and Dorcas are second cousins.
(c) Alice and Dorcas are sisters.
(d) Dorcas is Alice's daughter.

4. What does Joe not recall from his early days with Violet?
(a) What they buy as a couple.
(b) Feelings.
(c) The dresses that she wears.
(d) Specific dates.

5. In the beginning of the book, why does Joe say he shoots Dorcas?
(a) He wants to keep the feeling of love going.
(b) She tries to rob him.
(c) He is trying to shoot someone else.
(d) He wants to capture her forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet try to do to Dorcas's face?

2. What does Joe buy Dorcas the first day they meet?

3. Where does Dorcas insist Joe take her?

4. Where do Dorcas's clothespin dolls lay?

5. What does Violet regret when she turns forty?

(see the answer key)

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