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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main industry in Port Warwick?
(a) Automotive.
(b) Healthcare.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Shipbuilding.

2. What does Helen recall in this chapter?
(a) Peyton's days as a youngster.
(b) Peyton's college days.
(c) Peyton's wedding day.
(d) Peyton's bad marriage.

3. The body is being transported from the train station to ___________________.
(a) The crematorium.
(b) The church.
(c) The funeral home.
(d) The cemetery.

4. Whose body arrives at the train station?
(a) Grammy's.
(b) Helen's.
(c) Peyton's.
(d) Maude's.

5. Who is the protagonist of the story?
(a) Arnie.
(b) Milton.
(c) Maude.
(d) Barclay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Milton's daughter living when she wrote him the letter that he reads while waiting at the train station?

2. What does Helen recollect about Milton in this chapter?

3. Where does the Loftis family live?

4. In what month does the body arrive at the train station?

5. As the novel opens, the narrator describes a train trip from __________________ to Port Warwick.

(see the answer key)

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