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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Two Square Feet - An Unlucky Man, Pages 141 - 166).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "An Unlucky Man," what is the narrator's father's "clincher"?
(a) I will not condone such nonsense.
(b) This is an outrage.
(c) I will fight this in court.
(d) You have not heard the last of me.

2. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola call to call the ambulance for her husband?
(a) The butcher.
(b) Her landlord.
(c) The baker.
(d) The rotisserie woman.

3. In "None of That," where do the narrator and her mother get stuck?
(a) The mountains.
(b) The muddy lawn of a stranger.
(c) The highway.
(d) The beach.

4. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola feel when the boy comes to return the thing he borrowed from her husband?
(a) Longing.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Fear.

5. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Marga keep repeating to the police?
(a) "My pain, my pain."
(b) "I want to die, I want to die."
(c) "My husband, my husband."
(d) "My kids, my kids."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Two Square Feet," what does the narrator say she and her husband have lost?

2. In "None of That," what does the daughter tell herself when she drives her mother home from the stranger's house?

3. In "Breath From the Depths," when does Lola often take a nap?

4. In "Breath From the Depths," after Lola's husband dies, what are the only things left in the garden?

5. In "Breath From the Depths," what sound does Lola make sometimes when she breathes?

(see the answer key)

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