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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not enter into Almeda's idea of what marriage would be like?
(a) Reliance.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Fun.
(d) Responsibility.

2. Why can Almeda not discern that the woman at the gate is drunk and not dead?
(a) She has led a sheltered existence.
(b) The woman is not moving.
(c) The woman has soiled herself.
(d) It is too dark.

3. Where does Jarvis Pouter live?
(a) Two streets over from Almeda.
(b) Two lots away from Almeda.
(c) Two blocks away from Almeda.
(d) On the other side of town from Almeda.

4. What shocks Almeda when she sees the woman?
(a) Her wounds.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her primal state.
(d) Her age.

5. All the people in town are under what age?
(a) 75.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since the publication of Almeda's book?

2. What does Almeda do when trying to decide how to handle the situation outside her house?

3. Almeda's house is on the corner of Pearl and ___________ Streets.

4. Which of the following is not the typical assumption for a woman's life in the late a1880s?

5. When does Almeda think the swamp is the loveliest?

(see the answer key)

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