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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 NOT one of Florence's favorite actions that the other girls at her hostel take?
(a) They meet every morning for prayers.
(b) They celebrate the other girls' birthdays.
(c) They bring blankets and fruit to ill girls.
(d) They are kind.

2. In what month and year does Edward say his last fightfight occurred?
(a) August of 1958.
(b) May of 1967.
(c) March of 1965.
(d) January of 1961.

3. What word brings to Florence's mind "nothing but pain, flesh parted before a knife" (8)?
(a) Intercourse.
(b) Entered.
(c) Proclivity.
(d) Penetration.

4. With what subject does Edward become obsessed during the summer he meets Florence?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Mozart's death.
(c) Medieval cults.
(d) Economic recession.

5. 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) Irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Understatement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Florence's nervous habit?

2. On what street are Harold Mather and Edward walking when Harold Mather is struck?

3. What is NOT listed among the outdated beliefs about masturbation when the narrator is explaining Edward's feelings about engaging in the practice?

4. When Florence whispers her feeling to Edward, she thinks that her words hiss "in her mouth like those of a" (103) what?

5. Edward mistakes the inner turmoil causing Florence's leg muscle spasm for what other emotion?

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