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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 job does Miss Chandler hold?
(a) Nanny.
(b) Grocery clerk.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Schoolteacher.
2. When Linda says "Catch old lady Strangeworth sending anybody a check," (427), what is she implying?
(a) Miss Strangeworth is getting absentminded.
(b) Miss Strangeworth is cruel.
(c) Miss Strangeworth is not generous.
(d) Miss Strangeworth is weird.
3. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
(a) Proud.
(b) Amused.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Jealous.
4. 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 Miss Strangeworth would not be so isolated if she were a kinder person.
(c) That even the town's teenagers are more mature than Miss Strangeworth.
(d) That a good person chooses to be kind and helpful even in difficult times.
5. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?
(a) With the scorn that people show towards those who eat, drink, or do other things to excess.
(b) With the kindness that a person shows to someone who needs a little extra generosity or lenience.
(c) In the forgiving but irritated way that an adult looks at a misbehaving child.
(d) In the surprised way that an adult looks at a child that has done something strange.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which one of her neighbors does Miss Strangeworth chat with while she is checking out at the grocery store?
2. When Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?
3. What literary technique is used when Miss Strangeworth asks Helen if she has upset her husband by pointing out that the baby is " six months old and hasn't yet begun to learn to dance"?
4. Who was the first owner of the grocery store?
5. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?
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