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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do both Mrs. Weldon and Mr. Weldon feel about their apartment?
(a) Both like the apartment, but they assume that the other dislikes it.
(b) Mrs. Weldon likes the apartment, but Mr. Weldon dislikes it.
(c) Mr. Weldon likes the apartment, but Mrs. Weldon dislikes it.
(d) Both dislike the apartment, but they assume that the other likes it.

2. How do Ed and Hazel's other friends respond when Hazel is feeling sad?
(a) They never know when she is sad because she hides her emotions.
(b) They listen to her troubles and lend her emotional support.
(c) They tell her to cheer up and stop being a spoil sport.
(d) They suggest that she should she a therapist.

3. What kind of work does Mrs. Martindale do?
(a) She knits blankets for the army hospitals.
(b) She sews uniforms for soldiers at war.
(c) She sews hospital gowns for the war relief.
(d) She organizes fundraisers for war relief efforts.

4. What emotion does the narrator of "Temps Perdu" feel when she sees a laurel tree in May?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Hope.
(d) Joy.

5. Who is Mrs. Hofstadter who lives on Josephine Street?
(a) Horace's first wife.
(b) Horace's former employer.
(c) The woman who places Horace with the narrator.
(d) The woman who leases the bungalow to the narrator and her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator refuse to count sheep?

2. In the poem "The Trifler," who would the narrator like to take as a lover?

3. For what is the narrator of "Sonnet For the End of a Sequence" grateful?

4. What three poets are the subject of "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature"?

5. On what occasion does the hag visit the narrator in the poem "Godmother"?

(see the answer key)

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