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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ruth like to do as a child?
(a) Catch fireflies.
(b) Eat flowers.
(c) Eavesdrop.
(d) Swim.

3. What are the names of Ebbett's sons?
(a) Stanley and Len.
(b) Gregory and Wilson.
(c) Peter, Jack, Samuel and Carl.
(d) Ricky, Jonas and Paul.

4. What does Ebbett wait for in the prologue?
(a) Peace.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

5. Who is Ruth?
(a) Ebbett's daughter.
(b) Ebbett's great-niece.
(c) Ebbett's niece.
(d) Ebbett's granddaughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who builds a coffin in Chapter 1?

2. Who does Ruth stay with when her parents go away for a short time in Chapter 1?

3. If Ebbett had lived long enough, how would he have felt about Ruth?

4. What is Senator Simon Adams terrified of?

5. Who is described as being an aggressive lobsterman?

(see the answer key)

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