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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(b) A holistic zone of healing.
(c) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.
(d) A world away from the mundane.

2. How does Virginia describe Ralph?
(a) As handsome but amoral.
(b) As a handsome ditherer.
(c) As handsome and callow.
(d) As daring.

3. Where would Clarissa like her ashes to be scattered?
(a) On the big dune at Wellfleet.
(b) Over the lake in Central Park.
(c) Wherever Richard's are scattered.
(d) In her own garden.

4. How much of her book has Laura now read?
(a) Three quarters of it.
(b) Half of it.
(c) All of it.
(d) More than a third of it.

5. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?
(a) The way the door has a cantilevered front extension, like a storm porch.
(b) The way the door has a green-shuttered window in it.
(c) The size and shape of it compared to the main house.
(d) The way the door has two little red windows in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?

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

3. How many words has Virginia written in this session?

4. What is Louis' sad observation?

5. What annoys Leonard?

(see the answer key)

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