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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What record are the Pysyk twins playing the first time that Dolores meets them?
(a) "The Twist".
(b) "Moonlight Sonata".
(c) "Big Girls Don't Cry".
(d) "Heat Wave".

2. After the rape, to where do the Speights say they are moving?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New York.
(c) Toledo.
(d) They do not tell anyone they are leaving.

3. What does Dolores' father do with the nursery furniture after her mother loses the baby?
(a) He leaves it in the room and locks it.
(b) He burns it in the backyard.
(c) He puts it in the basement.
(d) He takes it to the dump.

4. Who does Dolores first tell about the rape?
(a) Roberta.
(b) No one.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. Why does Dolores' grandmother refer to the Pysyk twins as "displaced persons"?
(a) They live in a different neighborhood.
(b) They are not Catholic.
(c) They are outcasts.
(d) They are immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dolores remember the television delivery men as being?

2. Why does Dolores' father get her mother the parakeet?

3. What is the name of Dolores' father's girlfriend?

4. In the college entrance essay that Dolores' mother writes for her, who does she write about?

5. Why does Jack visit Dolores on the night that he tells her the secret about Rita?

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