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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Almeda's mother die?
(a) Grief.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Drowning.

2. What can Almeda hear outside her house?
(a) Street vendors.
(b) Carriages.
(c) Birds.
(d) Children.

3. The literary device in which Almeda experiences delirium with a tonic meant to produce calm is called what?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Irony.
(d) Alliteration.

4. What does Almeda see at her gate?
(a) A baby in a basket.
(b) A mob.
(c) The body of a woman.
(d) A gun.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a typical focus of Almeda's work?

3. What does Jarvis tell the woman at the gate?

4. Which of the following does not enter into Almeda's idea of what marriage would be like?

5. What is the name of the book from which the lines at the beginning of each section are taken?

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