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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. What is in the red box in the museum?
(a) Old photographs.
(b) Donations to keep the museum running.
(c) Porcelain insulators.
(d) Optometrist's instruments.

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

3. Who is the author of "The Love of a Good Woman"?
(a) Eudora Welty.
(b) Edith Wharton.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Alice Munroe.

4. When, on page 36, Mrs. Quinn says "Good riddance to bad rubbish," to whom is she referring?
(a) Enid.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Herself.
(d) Olive.

5. To what does the narrator compare the opthalmoscope?
(a) A broken mirror.
(b) A snake.
(c) A kaleidoscope.
(d) A snowman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Quinn ask Enid to get her daughters to stop doing?

2. What does Enid tell Rupert about her second notebook?

3. Why does Mrs. Quinn say she missed Mr. Willens's funeral?

4. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?

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

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