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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Molly's favorite novel that she attempted to steal?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) The Old Man and the Sea.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) Anne of Green Gables.

2. How old does Vivian say she is in the Prologue of the novel?
(a) 67.
(b) 84.
(c) 79.
(d) 91.

3. What grade was Molly in when she transferred to Mount Desert Island High School?
(a) Eleventh grade.
(b) Seventh grade.
(c) Tenth grade.
(d) Twelfth grade.

4. Before fostering Molly, her foster parents fostered a boy that attempted committing what crime?
(a) Stealing the family car.
(b) Murder.
(c) Armed robbery.
(d) Setting the elementary school on fire.

5. What is the name of the man Vivian's Dad tries to contact once Vivian's family has arrived in New York?
(a) William Boyd.
(b) Jack O'Connell.
(c) James Massey.
(d) Mark Flannery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jack's father from?

2. Of what does Vivian say in the Prologue, "Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened"?

3. How would you describe Molly's sense of style in the beginning of the novel?

4. What is the name of the village in Ireland where Vivian's family lived before immigrating to America?

5. What is the name of the ship that Vivian's family takes to America in 1929?

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