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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Heart Failure" Pages 31-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enid's mother believe is true about Enid?
(a) She is often stubborn just for the sake of being stubborn.
(b) She is a flighty and mercurial person.
(c) She has a bit of a martyr complex.
(d) She is not smart enough to finish her nursing program.

2. How long has the doctor predicted Mrs. Quinn will live?
(a) Until sometime in the upcoming summer.
(b) To the end of spring.
(c) Until sometime in the upcoming winter.
(d) To the end of fall.

3. What words best characterize Jimmy's crowded family household?
(a) Tense, anxious.
(b) Chaotic, boisterous.
(c) Rigid, orderly.
(d) Polite, optimistic.

4. Where did Rupert meet his wife?
(a) Northern Canada.
(b) Montreal.
(c) Vancouver.
(d) Toronto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides nursing, what other career does Enid consider when she is younger?

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

3. Enid dislikes "this body that she had to wash and powder and placate" (38). In this context, what does "placate" mean?

4. Why does Mrs. Quinn repeat things that Enid says to her?

5. How did Mr. D. M. Willens die?

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