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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Richie frown in concentration?
(a) Trying not to spill crumbs as he eats the birthday cake.
(b) Making a wish as the birthday candles burn.
(c) The job of removing the candles from the cake.
(d) Trying to make out the letters on the cake.

2. What does the word 'ubiquitous' tell us about the Jack Russell terriers.
(a) That they are big dogs that many people own.
(b) That they are noisy little pests and many people object to them.
(c) That they have become very common. Lots of people seem to have them.
(d) That they are really small dogs.

3. Who dozes on a slatted bench?
(a) An old woman in a shawl.
(b) An old woman in a red jacket.
(c) Leonard.
(d) Clarissa.

4. What surprises Sally about Oliver?
(a) He is not much different from his movie persona.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) That he is ordinary and ill-tempered.
(d) That he is so short.

5. What is a sarcophagus?
(a) A person who eats flesh.
(b) A stone coffin.
(c) A kind of bone cancer.
(d) A sarcastic Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?

2. Vanessa resembles a sculpture of which period, according to Virginia?

3. Which character does Virginia wish to avoid?

4. What is Richie nervous about?

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

(see the answer key)

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