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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simon hire Webster to do?
(a) Follow Ruth around and report back to him.
(b) Clean out his fishing boat.
(c) Explore the mudflats.
(d) Cook and clean for him.

2. What does Senator Simon Adams deliver in Chapter 1?
(a) A pie baked by his mother.
(b) Some old clothes and rags.
(c) A ticket to California.
(d) Healing chicken stock.

3. How old is Lanford Ellis in Chapter 3?
(a) Ninety- four years old.
(b) Seventy-nine years old.
(c) Eighty-one years old.
(d) Eighty-six years old.

4. What produces a distinctive population on these islands?
(a) A native race that resides only on these islands.
(b) The intermarriage among the Germans and the Japanese.
(c) The settlers did not and have not married outside their race.
(d) The intermarriage among the Scottish and the Irish.

5. How do the locals feel about the Ellises?
(a) They ignore them.
(b) They idolize them.
(c) They envy them.
(d) They resent them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Ruth graduate?

2. What is Senator Simon Adams terrified of?

3. What does Ruth like to do as a child?

4. Who's quarries can be found on Courne Haven?

5. Who builds a coffin in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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