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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: The Beg Pardon; Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the benefit of Avey's hotel balcony meltdown?
(a) She can now forgive her husband.
(b) She can now ask her daughters for forgiveness.
(c) She now has a focus for her anger.
(d) She is finally free of her mother.

2. What does Avey recall about Jerome's face as he lay in his casket?
(a) She wished he had kept the mustache.
(b) She didn't recognize him.
(c) She could not look at him in his casket.
(d) She thought he was still handsome.

3. How does Avey approach Jay on the question of infidelity?
(a) Detached.
(b) Hysterically.
(c) Professionally.
(d) Calmly.

4. How is Avey's hotel room furnished?
(a) Italianate.
(b) Tudor.
(c) French Country.
(d) Contemporary.

5. Who do the old women on the boat remind Avey of?
(a) Great Aunt Cuney and her sister.
(b) Sis and Marion.
(c) Her mother and aunts.
(d) The old women in the congregation when she was a girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe Avey's hotel on the island?

2. What is Thomasina's reaction when she sees Avey packed and waiting to leave?

3. About what does Avey reflect on in Chapter 5?

4. Where does Avey go after she gets dressed?

5. What question does the preacher ask after he finishes the story of Christ rising from the dead?

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