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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 109 - 142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does M assure L the sound he heard was, which was no cause for worry?
(a) Tony and his friends workin.
(b) Gas guns farmers use to keep birds off their crops.
(c) Local children playing tricks on him.
(d) Justine being silly.

2. In Candy's letter, why does she say she had been thinking of L and their time in California?
(a) She came across an old photo album.
(b) She read an article about L.
(c) Her daughter is the same age Candy was then.
(d) Her marriage is falling apart.

3. Though Tony's adopted parents never spoke of his origins, what did M suspect they were?
(a) Native American.
(b) South Asian.
(c) African American.
(d) Hispanic.

4. Who did M think was in the picture that fell out of Justine's purse?
(a) Justine and M.
(b) Justine and her father.
(c) Justine and Tony.
(d) Justine and L.

5. Aside from her books, how did M make a large sum of money?
(a) Selling real estate.
(b) Her ex-husband's stocks.
(c) Her etchings.
(d) A series of small businesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M realize about the mural Brett and L were making on the walls of the second place?

2. What did L finally agree to do after M told him more about her past?

3. What did M tell L Tony's early experience with death forced him to do?

4. What word does the narrator use to describe Jeffers at the start of the story?

5. How are the people with whom L lived while his father died described?

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