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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of music is performed at the venue called the Hundred Club?
(a) Classical.
(b) Blues.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Doo-wop.

2. Florence describes Edward as virtually the only man she has ever met who does not engage in what practice?
(a) Swearing.
(b) Golfing.
(c) Spitting.
(d) Smoking.

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

4. The narrator states that when Edward first sees Florence, the lighting makes her face resemble a what?
(a) A carved mask.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A shimmering vision.
(d) A porcelain doll.

5. What is Florence's IQ?
(a) 144.
(b) 152.
(c) 160.
(d) 136.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Florence and Edward are briefly alone during their wedding night dinner, what phrase does Edward whisper "for the hundredth time that day" (14)?

2. In what year do Florence and Edward both go off to college?

3. Edward's mother Marjorie will not approach him if she sees him holding what object?

4. What had NOT been on the list of Edward and Florence's fears in regard to their parents' behavior at the wedding?

5. What word brings to Florence's mind "nothing but pain, flesh parted before a knife" (8)?

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