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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the reader learn in Chapter 1 that Claudia and her brother collected on the beach as children?
(a) Sand dollars.
(b) Hermit crabs.
(c) Shells.
(d) Fossils.

2. What does Claudia recall to be her grade on her final history exam in school?
(a) 99 percent.
(b) 100 percent plus 25 points extra credit.
(c) 38 percent.
(d) 13 percent.

3. What does Claudia say killed her father?
(a) War.
(b) A freak accident.
(c) History.
(d) Exploration.

4. What does the back seat passenger contemplate on the way back from the airport in Chapter 3?
(a) Why he believes in destiny.
(b) Whether Gordon's affairs are all in the past.
(c) Whether Claudia will ever agree to marry him.
(d) Why her mother never married her father.

5. What bothers Claudia about Sylvia in Chapter 3?
(a) Sylvia seems content to be a mere housewife.
(b) Sylvia gets to sleep with Gordon.
(c) The perfume she wears.
(d) Sylvia's hairstyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which American university does Gordon teach?

2. What is Claudia's one memory of her father?

3. How old was Claudia when she prayed for God to kill her brother because he could outrun her?

4. Who does not visit Claudia during her hospital stay in Chapter 1?

5. What is the name of the club where the celebration in Chapter 2 takes place?

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