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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 does the narrator say he likened Mrs. Grace's body to as a teenager?
(a) A movie star.
(b) A fountain.
(c) A flower.
(d) A Greek goddess.

2. When does the narrator say his father left his family?
(a) The summer he met Chloe.
(b) The summer after he met Chloe.
(c) When he was an infant.
(d) The summer before he met Chloe.

3. When does the narrator say he decided to move to The Cedars?
(a) When Claire convinced him to.
(b) After reading about it in the paper.
(c) A month before Anna's death.
(d) After visiting it when Anna died.

4. What was the daughter doing the first time the narrator saw her at the Grace house?
(a) Reading.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Playing.

5. In "Section 1: Part 5", how does the narrator describe the chance to be with the Grace family at a picnic?
(a) Troubled by the importance of the situation.
(b) Happy to be alive.
(c) Nervous and shaking.
(d) Blessed by the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the narrator's bed interesting to him?

2. When the narrator remembers vacationing with his family in "Section 1: Part 2", what troubled his mother?

3. Why does the narrator assume that Miss Vavasour cries herself to sleep?

4. What is The Cedars?

5. At the end of "Section 1: Part 1", what does the narrator say he should have done?

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