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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 the souvenir cloth from?
(a) Mrs. Quinn's time working in a northern hotel.
(b) Rupert's parents' visit to see a famous set of quintuplets.
(c) Rupert and Mrs. Quinn's honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
(d) Olive and Clint's vacation to Toronto to see a famous tower.

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

3. When Mrs. Quinn stares at Enid as if she wants to talk, what does Enid ask her?
(a) Whether she is uncomfortable or hungry.
(b) Whether she wants to see a priest or minister.
(c) Why she refuses to speak to her daughters.
(d) Why she has been such a terrible wife to Rupert.

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

5. When Mrs. Willens sees the boys in front of her house, what does she do?
(a) Goes back in the house to get them some cookies.
(b) Offers them some forsythia to take home to their mothers.
(c) Asks them if they have seen her husband.
(d) Tells them to stop standing in the street staring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Death Trap" (7)?

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 is the tone of Mrs. Quinn's thoughts about Mr. Willens's kiss?

4. Why does Enid not pray about her bad dreams?

5. What job does Cece take over for his mother when he gets home?

(see the answer key)

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