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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Lies" Pages 62-78.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the weather during the summer Enid is caring for Mrs. Quinn?
(a) It is cold and dry.
(b) It is very hot and wet.
(c) It is very hot and dry.
(d) It is cold and wet.

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

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

4. What does Enid realize that her patients and others might think about her?
(a) That she is only pretending to care about them to make herself look good.
(b) That she is probably lonely and frustrated without a man.
(c) That she has wasted her life because she has no children.
(d) That she is a fool for trying so hard to be good and help others.

5. In Enid's imagination, what will happen if Rupert agrees to confess?
(a) Her mother will finally be impressed by something she has accomplished.
(b) Mrs. Willens will be shocked and upset, but eventually she will be grateful.
(c) People in town will think that she is a hero.
(d) She will help Rupert and stand by his side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the red box in the museum?

2. At the end of "Mistake," what is meant by the final sentence, "What a laugh" (62)?

3. What does the narrator say is the problem with Jimmy's grandmother's cooking?

4. What is Enid doing when Rupert comes into the house to find it lit by candlelight?

5. What does Enid remember telling her mother about that her mother later convinced her was just a dream?

(see the answer key)

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