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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Possibility of Evil".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people in town decide is wrong with Linda Stewart after they realize that she has not had a fight with her boyfriend?
(a) They think that she must have argued with her best friend.
(b) They think that there must be some problem at home.
(c) They think that she is having trouble in school.
(d) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.

2. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Miss Strangeworth.
(d) Her mother.

3. Linda suggests that since no one in town seems to care about her and Dave, they should not bother to help anyone else. When Dave decides to help anyway, what does it demonstrate?
(a) That Linda is really the problem in their relationship, not Dave.
(b) That even the town's teenagers are more mature than Miss Strangeworth.
(c) That Miss Strangeworth would not be so isolated if she were a kinder person.
(d) That a good person chooses to be kind and helpful even in difficult times.

4. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
(a) She thinks that there is nothing about her that a person could possibly make fun of.
(b) She has been a good friend to their families and knows most of them by name.
(c) She thinks that they would not dare to make fun of someone as important as her.
(d) She knows that the children of the town have all be raised to respect older people.

5. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?
(a) In the surprised way that an adult looks at a child that has done something strange.
(b) With the scorn that people show towards those who eat, drink, or do other things to excess.
(c) In the forgiving but irritated way that an adult looks at a misbehaving child.
(d) With the kindness that a person shows to someone who needs a little extra generosity or lenience.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?

2. What did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?

3. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?

4. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?

5. Miss Strangeworth stops to discuss an "appropriation" with Miss Chandler (422). What are they talking about?

(see the answer key)

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