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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ariel suggests she may not attend Juilliard, what alternative does she present to her parents?
(a) Staying at home to help her mother and father finish raising Frank and Jake.
(b) Attending Mankato State and continuing to study with Emil Brandt.
(c) Getting married to Karl Brandt.
(d) Attending Yale University.

2. What reason does Julie give for saying Emil's suicide attempt is fortunate?
(a) Because Ariel and Karl still have each other around for comfort.
(b) Because Lise will have to move into an assisted care home and get the care she needs.
(c) Because Emil's attempt allows Ruth to feel like a savior.
(d) Because Emil will get the psychological help he obviously needs.

3. Why do Frank and Jake walk home from the jail instead of riding in their father's car?
(a) Gus throws up in their father's backseat.
(b) Frank wants to try peeping at their next door neighbor before returning home.
(c) Jake wants to go break out Morris' headlights before returning home.
(d) Their father does not tell them why they have to walk home.

4. Why are Frank and Jake not technically allowed by their parents to swim at the old quarry?
(a) Because the cliffs the boys dive from are treacherous.
(b) Because the quarry lies at the end of a winding road that has been the scene of many pedestrian fatalities.
(c) Because there is a No Trespassing sign there and there is still dangerous machinery at the bottom of the swimming hole.
(d) Because the quarry is a frequent hangout for the town's delinquents.

5. What topic is at the center of the large argument between Ariel and Ruth on the day of Ruth's chorale performance?
(a) Which of the two women is the better singer.
(b) Which of the two women knows Emil more thoroughly.
(c) Which of the two women is more ambitious.
(d) Which of the two women is the better cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose conversation does Frank overhear when he is hiding behind the stage at the theater?

2. Whose vehicle do the boys see parked at the quarry when they arrive there?

3. Who stays with Lise at her house while Emil is in the hospital?

4. When Father Peter tells Nathan the reasons for the townspeople's negative feelings about Ruth's role as the minister's wife, what three reasons does he give?

5. What is the punishment that Frank and Jake receive as a result of playing at the tracks?

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