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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 12 - 18 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alma respond when Pammy suggested Debi Hather was an old friend?
(a) She said she had never seen the woman in her life.
(b) She said she used to sleep with her father.
(c) She said she was not sure Debi would remember her.
(d) She said she never meant anything to them.

2. How does Debi try to justify her daughter leaving without a word?
(a) Debi knew she deserved it.
(b) She raised a bold, independent girl.
(c) Her daughter had always been a free-spirit.
(d) She taught her daughter how to save enough money to survive on her own.

3. Why did Paulie miss the Mother's Day outing with Pammy and Alma?
(a) He had the dates mixed up.
(b) He slept in.
(c) His flight was delayed.
(d) He missed his flight.

4. What does Alma yell out when the baby girl asks her whose fault it was?
(a) Yours!
(b) His!
(c) I don't know!
(d) Both of ours!

5. What does the paramedic say to the other paramedic at the end of the story?
(a) This one gave up the ghost.
(b) She kicked the bucket for sure.
(c) She is dead as a doornail.
(d) Nobody even close to home in there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alma think the place Pammy works smells like?

2. What is Debi doing outside of her house when Alma sees her as she and Pammy reach the house?

3. What word did Paul, Sr. once use to describe "the efficacy of his tree stimulator" (3)?

4. What does Pammy try to point out to her mother as they walk Pine Street at the start of the story?

5. What did Paul, Sr., once call Alma while he was drunk?

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