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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Part 5 (pp. 68-93).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is The Cedars?
(a) Rehab.
(b) A retirement home.
(c) A boarding house.
(d) A school.

2. What does the narrator say Avril told him about the dairy farmer's family?
(a) They have all died.
(b) They all left for Europe.
(c) They work in the city now.
(d) They moved down the road.

3. What does the narrator say happened at the end of the Grace family picnic?
(a) Mr. Grace made him leave early.
(b) He helped clean up.
(c) His mother was late picking him up.
(d) Chloe hit him.

4. In "Section 1: Part 3", what does the narrator say is the last thing he sees when leaving the dairy farm?
(a) A single cow.
(b) A pot of flowers.
(c) A little girl.
(d) A dying tree.

5. Why does the narrator assume that Miss Vavasour cries herself to sleep?
(a) Because of a rumor Colonel told him.
(b) Because of her prayers.
(c) Because of the look of her eyes.
(d) Because of the sounds that come from her room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he did with Claire shortly after Anna died?

2. What type of life does the narrator say he envisioned for himself as a child?

3. In the narrator's dream in "Section 1: Part 2", where does he travel?

4. Which member of the Grace family does the narrator call a "godling"?

5. In "Section 1: Part 5", where does the narrator say he isn't when he says: "where [he is] neither alive nor..."

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