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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Mistake" Pages 56-62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Captain Tervitt's current job?
(a) Ship's captain.
(b) None--he is retired.
(c) Special constable.
(d) Town clerk.

2. What do the attentions of the creamery manager at the Town Hall dance tell the reader about Enid?
(a) She is unlikely to find a man her own age in Walley who is interested in her.
(b) She is a popular and attractive woman, but she has little interest in men.
(c) She is still too focused on her career to spend much time thinking about boyfriends.
(d) She is widely considered to be disagreeable and unattractive.

3. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?
(a) Coming in to visit her.
(b) Laughing loudly in the house.
(c) Playing outdoors.
(d) Slamming the door.

4. How does Mrs. Quinn seem after her husband's visits?
(a) Agitated.
(b) Comforted.
(c) Distraught.
(d) Dissatisfied.

5. How old was Enid when her father made her promise to drop out of nursing school?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 22.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, on page 36, Mrs. Quinn says "Good riddance to bad rubbish," to whom is she referring?

2. What does Enid recall a patient doing with a willow platter she asked Enid to retrieve for her?

3. What does Enid do about Mrs. Quinn's "violent itching" (31)?

4. Why are Lois and Sylvie not staying with Olive?

5. What words best characterize Jimmy's crowded family household?

(see the answer key)

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