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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2 Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Delia that the book is a success and "she was a failure?"
(a) August.
(b) Her publisher.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

2. What does Dan suggest Delia write a book and title it?
(a) The Jaskerville Extinction.
(b) The Last of the Mound Builders.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) The Dying of Blue Shoals.

3. How does Dan almost drown the previous summer?
(a) Chad pushed him off the pier.
(b) A fish pulled him under.
(c) He fell out of the boat drunk.
(d) He was knocked out by an oar.

4. Delia talks of a soothsayer in Dombey and Son. Who changed the future in the book?
(a) The hero.
(b) The villain.
(c) The girl.
(d) The soothsayer.

5. Delia claims in Act 1 to have a terror of what?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Gathering moss.
(c) Heights.
(d) Hospitals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Jean taking off work?

2. Which character says, "I wouldn't be a man. Not and carry all the dumbfounding load they've saddled themselves with?"

3. What time is it when Dan and Chad awaken Jean in the end of Act 1?

4. What is the life expectancy of the villagers where the dig is taking place?

5. Who does Jean say the people on the dig want to fit into a particular pattern, although they know nothing about?

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