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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Heart Failure" Pages 44-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Enid, what is different about Mrs. Quinn from all of her previous patients?
(a) She has never been treated so badly by a patient.
(b) She will be sad when Mrs. Quinn dies.
(c) She thinks there is something suspicious about Mrs. Quinn's illness.
(d) She does not want to help Mrs. Quinn.

2. What did Cece Ferns and Ralph Diller find near the river the previous year?
(a) A pack of cigarettes.
(b) Shell casings from a rifle.
(c) A gold coin.
(d) A cow's hipbone.

3. What do the boys usually call one another when they are out at Jutland?
(a) Family nicknames.
(b) Nothing.
(c) School nicknames.
(d) Their first names.

4. Where does Mrs. Quinn say she thinks her husband goes after he visits her?
(a) Back to work.
(b) To the Duke of Cumberland.
(c) To his sister's house.
(d) To pick up other women.

5. What can be inferred from Enid's memories of girls at school who married and had children young?
(a) People often misunderstand the nature of their own ambitions.
(b) Professional opportunities for women are much too limited.
(c) Men will do nearly anything to oppress the women they claim to love.
(d) Being a wife and mother is a difficult life and probably not worth striving for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does the narrator come to about why the boys did not tell their parents about the dead body?

2. When Enid gets up in the middle of the night to work, she thinks that it is the best way to be "penitent" (52). What does this mean she is trying to do?

3. What dessert does Bud get in trouble for picking at before dinner?

4. What kind of a person does Enid's mother make her promise not to marry?

5. What change at home is implied to be the reason that Bud finally tells his mother what happened?

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