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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many words has Virginia written in this session?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Two hundred and ninety.
(c) Two hundred and fifty.
(d) A thousand.

2. What do both Clarissa and Louis notice about each other?
(a) That each is well-preserved for their age.
(b) The extent of their aging in five years.
(c) That each has has plastic surgery.
(d) That each is nervous for Richard.

3. What jewelry is Laura wearing?
(a) An ivory pendant.
(b) An ivory bangle.
(c) Three ivory bangles.
(d) Gold chains and rings.

4. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.
(b) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.
(c) They are a couple who never fight.
(d) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.

5. What annoys Leonard?
(a) Barbara's voice.
(b) Virginia's not finishing her writing.
(c) The errors he finds on the proof pages.
(d) Ralph's poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?

2. How does Virginia describe Ralph?

3. Who is Ralph?

4. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?

5. What is the very long chapter in Richard's novel concerned with?

(see the answer key)

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