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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Claudia also want to be tutored like her brother, as mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) She was bored.
(b) She wanted the same opportunity.
(c) The tutor was cute.
(d) The class was free.

2. What does Gordon teach?
(a) English literature.
(b) History.
(c) Economics.
(d) Biology.

3. When did Claudia show the most interest in her daughter?
(a) When she began dance classes.
(b) When she started school.
(c) When she began to walk.
(d) When she was learning to talk.

4. Who does the reader learn in Chapter 2 stabs at Claudia's crotch with a finger?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Tom.
(c) Her father.
(d) Jasper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interested Claudia in the Mayflower?

2. At which American university does Gordon teach?

3. In Claudia's mind, what are the goals of Sylvia and women like her?

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

5. As Claudia lies in the hospital thinking about her life, where is the museum in which she recalls seeing dragons on pottery?

(see the answer key)

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