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

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

3. Besides "lazy," what is another word that Bud might use to describe his sisters?
(a) Vain.
(b) Sullen.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Apathetic.

4. What is Mrs. Quinn's first thought when she sees Rupert attack Mr. Willens?
(a) That she enjoys the violence.
(b) She has to call the police.
(c) That she will be next.
(d) She has to reason with her husband.

5. In describing the boys on their way back to town, what does the narrator say they are like?
(a) Animals.
(b) Stones.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Adults.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When Enid makes up her mind about nursing school, what question does her mother ask her, on page 40?

3. What do the boys realize as they near the police station?

4. What technique is used in the phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?

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

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