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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The neighborhood gossips come around asking about what?
(a) Why Nector goes into the woods alone with June.
(b) Why Eli spends time at the house and alone in the woods with June.
(c) The information Marie has about their husbands and children.
(d) Why June refuses to come to church, though she wears a rosary.

2. The precise timing necessary for Nector and Lulu's routine suggests:
(a) Lulu and Nector are bored with one another.
(b) Lulu and Nector are afraid of getting caught.
(c) Being with Lulu is exhausting for Nector because she is a perfectionist.
(d) Being with Lulu, as a wife and mother, is not so different from being with Marie.

3. The evidence Albertine finds in the trailer--beer cans and cigarette stubs--suggests:
(a) Someone has been hiding in one of the trucks.
(b) Dot and Albertine will no longer be working in the trailer.
(c) Gerry has been hiding in the trailer.
(d) Dot has been living in the trailer.

4. What does Leopolda's big key open?
(a) The medicine closet where she keeps the salve.
(b) The iron stove.
(c) The closet where the Dark One is hiding.
(d) The larder where the food is kept.

5. What are Marie's reasons for not wanting another child around?
(a) She has plans to leave with her husband.
(b) She has always hated her sister and her family.
(c) She has too many children and a drunk of a husband.
(d) She is ashamed of what the neighbors will think.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Albertine is changing in the bathroom, Henry:

2. Leopolda's words "Help me, Marie" before they take the loaves from the oven imply:

3. The allusion to the story of Jesus Christ when Henry eats his own blood mixed with bread suggests:

4. Leopolda strikes Marie with the oak pole because:

5. The sentence "The sun falls down the side of the world and the hill goes dark," suggests:

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