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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must Big Lannie quit her work?
(a) Her employers cannot pay her enough.
(b) She has to care for her blind grandchild.
(c) She injures her foot.
(d) Her back is full of arthritis.

2. What does the narrator of "Requiescat" pray "will not rise again"?
(a) Her love.
(b) The daisies.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

3. In "The White Lady," why does the narrator claim to hate the dead?
(a) They frighten her.
(b) Other people only speak kindly of the dead.
(c) She is jealous because they are "pompous" and well-behaved.
(d) She does not want to become one of them.

4. At the end of the story "Arrangement in Black and White," what detail of the dinner party is the woman eager to share with her husband?
(a) That the party host was rude to her.
(b) That she got to meet Katherine Burke.
(c) That she called Walter Williams "Mister."
(d) That she got to meet the singer Walter Williams.

5. What three poets are the subject of "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature"?
(a) John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.
(b) John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.
(c) Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Walt Whitman.
(d) William Wordsworth, William Blake, and John Keats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Walter Williams' profession?

2. What does Mrs. Corning ask the volunteers at headquarters to do before they leave for vacation?

3. Why is the narrator of "From the Diary of a New York Lady" upset with Rose on Thursday?

4. How does Mrs. Whittaker react to the news of her father's death?

5. What imaginary "purchase" puts a strain on the relationship between Annabel and Midge?

(see the answer key)

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