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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Lowenstein's husband do for a living?
(a) He is a professor at a city university.
(b) He is a musician.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He is a doctor like his wife.

2. Which of the following types of imagery dominates the Prologue?
(a) Fish, flora, and sunsets.
(b) Flowers, landscapes, and horizons.
(c) City streets and tall buildings.
(d) Farms and countrysides.

3. Tom is determined to discover ____________.
(a) Why Dr. Lowenstein keeps her emotional distance from him.
(b) Why his wife has decided to leave him.
(c) Why Savannah has become psychotic.
(d) Why Lila refuses to admit that anything traumatic happened to the children.

4. How many children do Tom and his wife have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. What is it about Henry Wingo that is difficult for Tom to reconcile?
(a) He does not think his father taught him anything growing up.
(b) He does not see how the war made his father such an emotional person.
(c) He does not know why his father loved Luke more than Tom.
(d) He cannot understand how Tolitha and Amos created such a dangerous man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed since Tom and Luke went to visit their sister in New York?

2. How does the Wingo family react to the last still born, Rose Ann?

3. Why might Conroy have included the scene with Tolitha's coffin in Chapter Eight?

4. According to Tom, which character seems to be the most caring person in the children's lives?

5. When Henry is recalled to the Air Force to go to Korea, where do Lila and the children go to live?

(see the answer key)

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