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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening in the house to mirror Almeda's menstrual flow?
(a) Overflowing grape juice.
(b) A bottle of red wine vinegar.
(c) Overflowing pitcher of cranberry juice.
(d) A spilled bottle of wine.

2. What does Almeda put into her beverage?
(a) Nerve medicine.
(b) Honey.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Cream.

3. As the day progresses, Almeda is in a state of _______________.
(a) Delirium.
(b) Panic.
(c) Agitation.
(d) Peace.

4. Almeda is removed from _________________ in the town.
(a) The Rotary Club.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Undesirable elements.
(d) The Garden Club.

5. What does Almeda do as she drinks her beverage?
(a) Reads a magazine.
(b) Talks on the phone.
(c) Sits in her dark house.
(d) Browses her book shelves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a state into which Almeda goes as a result of the nerve tonic?

2. What is Jarvis considered to be regarding marriage?

3. What literary technique does the author use to compare the flow of Almeda's emotional pain to a river?

4. For whom is the nerve tonic primarily prescribed?

5. Almeda thinks that married women have to _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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