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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Lies & Chapter 4, Modesty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Alvin at this point in the story?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Twelve.

2. What kind of emotions did Horace Guester's name bring about in Mistress Modesty?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Glad memory.
(c) Fear at what Peggy might intend.
(d) Both of these.

3. How did Peggy feel at times?
(a) That she would never be happy leading her life.
(b) That she was the lone lookout boy at the top of a ships mast.
(c) That her life would always be that of servitude and misery.
(d) That if it weren't for her being a torch, no one would care for her at all.

4. What had Cavil never seen anything so graceful as?
(a) The trickle of water down her spine.
(b) All of these.
(c) Her blue black thighs sliding against each other.
(d) The trickle of water down her chest.

5. What did Mistress Modesty imagine when she thought of Peggy's pain?
(a) How to heal her.
(b) How to help her.
(c) None of these.
(d) How she could benefit from Peggy's pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the African slave girl think Peggy's voice belongs to?

2. What did Dolores ask for Cavil to do?

3. What did the lowest kind of creature do?

4. What is Horace's secret sin?

5. What was the difference between Cavil and Abraham?

(see the answer key)

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