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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Henny and Old Ellen talk about?
(a) What do to about Sam's inappropriate relationship with the children.
(b) How to stay in a bad marriage.
(c) How women poison themselves.
(d) Why couples split up.

2. What does Henny complain about?
(a) The children.
(b) Sam's ego.
(c) Being poor.
(d) Living so far from town.

3. What is Sam Pollit's profession?
(a) Naturalist.
(b) Writer.
(c) Salesman.
(d) Accountant.

4. Where is the house Sam finds?
(a) In a suburb of Baltimore.
(b) In a poor neighborhood.
(c) In an apartment building.
(d) In a slum.

5. What do Sam and Henny discover when David Collyer's will is read?
(a) Everything was left to Henny's siblings.
(b) He was broke.
(c) Henny was specifically written out of the will.
(d) David Collyer left it all to charity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam think about as he walks through Georgetown?

2. Why does Henny like going to Washington D.C.?

3. Why did Henny look very theatrical when she stared off into the distance?

4. What does Norman Collyer tell Henny her trouble is?

5. What reason does Sam give for his marriage to Henny?

(see the answer key)

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