2. What is Avey doing at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Waiting for a boat.
(b) Talking to a fruit vendor.
(c) Buying sunscreen.
(d) Packing her clothes.

3. What is the location of Avey's dream prior to waking?
(a) Great Aunt Cuney's house.
(b) Her childhood bedroom.
(c) A bus station.
(d) The Halsey Street house.

4. Avey recalls that Marion always looked at her parents as if _____________________.
(a) They were idiots.
(b) She were judging them.
(c) They had two heads.
(d) They were amazing.

5. Where does Avery recall going as a girl on family trips?
(a) Bear Mountain.
(b) Kennebunkport.
(c) Florida.
(d) The Jersey shore.

6. With which daughter does Avey recall spending Christmas one year?
(a) Annawilda.
(b) Sis.
(c) She never spent Christmas away from home.
(d) Marion.

7. What startles Avey awake?
(a) Loud neighbors.
(b) An alarm call.
(c) A wake-up call.
(d) She steps into the sunlight in the room.

8. What does Avey do after her body has finished its purge?
(a) Takes a shower.
(b) Brushes her teeth.
(c) Takes a nap.
(d) Falls into a deep sleep.

9. What do the old women do as they help Avey move below deck?
(a) Hold her up as best they can.
(b) Put a blanket over her head.
(c) Cover her with their shawls.
(d) Call for help.

10. Avey wonders if Jay had really died on the night of their big fight and ____________ had been masquerading in his body all those years since.
(a) Jerome.
(b) Jay's best friend.
(c) Jay.
(d) The devil.

11. What does Avey call her now empty mind?
(a) A safe waiting for her future.
(b) A script waiting to be written.
(c) A fresh piece of paper.
(d) A tabula rasa.

12. Which of the following does Lebert tell Avey to convince her to go to the island with him?
(a) The sea will be smooth as silk.
(b) Her flight can be changed.
(c) All of these.
(d) They will have a reliable boat.

13. What does the little girl, Avey, feel as the congregation increases its intensity in responding to the preacher's questions?
(a) She wants to vomit.
(b) She wants to scream.
(c) She wants to run away.
(d) She wants to cry.

14. What is Avey's deep-seated pain?
(a) She was unfaithful to her husband.
(b) She had neglected the people of her heritage.
(c) She had an abortion when she was young.
(d) She never told her oldest daughter that she was adopted.

15. What is the name of the ship that would take Avey, as a girl, on the trips to Bear Mountain with her family and friends?
(a) Robert Fulton.
(b) Old Mac.
(c) Poughkeepsie Paddler.
(d) Hudson River Lines.