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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: A Dusty Lunch (228-258).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Dusty Lunch," what does Nell think about Brig’s letters?
(a) That she is the wrong person to receive them.
(b) Elated to help.
(c) Nervous she will lose them.
(d) Angry at the responsibility.

2. In "My Evil Mother," what is the narrator’s fiancé’s reaction to her mother?
(a) Anger.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Sadness.

3. In "Death by Clamshell," what happened to the men who hurt Hypatia in the afterlife?
(a) They got away with murder.
(b) They were put in isolation.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They were properly punished.

4. In "A Dusty Lunch," how did Brig’s wife die?
(a) Throat cancer.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Kidney stones.
(d) Ulcer.

5. In "A Dusty Lunch," what does Tig’s family pass down?
(a) Antique lace curtains.
(b) Ancestral silver.
(c) Diaries.
(d) Pearls and jade.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Dusty Lunch," Nell thinks Marty would have been doing what in earlier times?

2. How old is the narrator at the beginning of "My Evil Mother"?

3. In "My Evil Mother," what reason does the narrator’s father give for leaving?

4. In "Death by Clamshell," what did the mob gouge out?

5. Hypatia claims her attackers were deeply concerned with what?

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