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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the newspaper articles in chapter 4 reports a labor strike. Where did this strike occur?
(a) Royal Classic Knitwear.
(b) Chase Industries.
(c) In front of The Weary Soldier.
(d) The Port Ticonderoga town square.

2. In chapter 5, why does Laura think Iris is dying?
(a) Iris looks weak and pale, like their mother before she died.
(b) Iris is coughing a lot.
(c) She sees blood on the sheets when Iris gets her period.
(d) Iris becomes pregnant and is vomiting a lot.

3. What article clothing bothers the man when he and the woman meet at the beginning of chapter 4?
(a) Her dress.
(b) Her raincoat.
(c) Her stockings.
(d) Her hat.

4. How did Winifred Griffen Prior die?
(a) Illness.
(b) Suicide.
(c) A fatal fall.
(d) Drowning.

5. In the prologue to the novel within the novel, the main character looks at a picture. What object is depicted on this picture on one side?
(a) A tree.
(b) A foot.
(c) An apple.
(d) A hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Iris writing her memoir?

2. What item does the man often ask the woman to bring him?

3. Who is the narrator of the novel?

4. Who is the artist commissioned to sculpt the war memorial?

5. In the story the man is working on in the end of chapter 6, some explorers unearth an alien from what?

(see the answer key)

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