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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Florence's nervous habit?
(a) She blinks rapidly.
(b) She raises her hand to her forehead to sweep away an imaginary hair.
(c) She cracks her knuckles.
(d) She crosses and recrosses her legs.

2. How long does Edward say it had taken to repair the damage done by his sexual advance toward Florence in the movie theater?
(a) Months.
(b) Days.
(c) Hours.
(d) Weeks.

3. What literary device is employed in the narrator's statement that for Florence, "It was torture to remain in the room with someone who knew her like this" (131)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Irony.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Simile.

4. What is the name of Florence's string quartet?
(a) The Ennismore Quartet.
(b) The Eldridge Quartet.
(c) The Elsinore Quartet.
(d) The Ellingham Quartet.

5. What is Florence's sole source of information about sex?
(a) Nature television programs.
(b) Her mother's three-minute talk.
(c) A paperback guide for new brides.
(d) A single day's lesson in health class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Florence wearing when Edward sees her for the first time?

2. What image is on the paperback guide that Florence relies upon for information about sex?

3. What is Edward's IQ?

4. How old is Florence when her father Geoffrey takes her on each of the two boat trips to Carteret?

5. For what reason does Florence say she is unable to talk to her sister about her marital questions?

(see the answer key)

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