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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris?
(a) To learn how to speak French.
(b) For his new job.
(c) To escape the Great Depression.
(d) To find a job.

2. Who graduates from college first, Mary Jane or Eloise?
(a) Neither of them graduated.
(b) They are still in college.
(c) Eloise.
(d) Mary Jane.

3. What does Esme include with a letter in the package to the narrator?
(a) A story.
(b) A map.
(c) A book of jokes from Charles.
(d) Her father's watch.

4. What does Eloise think all women tell their husbands?
(a) That they need to work two jobs.
(b) How much they love them.
(c) How much they need them.
(d) Nothing honest.

5. How old is the boy in the story, Down at the Dinghy?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 14.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eloise call an "unattractive Bela Lugosi"?

2. Why is Mary Jane's husband sent to jail?

3. What happens to Charles' father?

4. Who is very ill in the story, Just Before the War with the Eskimos?

5. How long does Ginnie keep an Easter chick after it dies?

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