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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What “mule-headed” Shakespearean character is described in Chapter 19 as “stumbling from tents of sheer turquoise and white”?
(a) Juliet
(b) Romeo
(c) Bottom
(d) Hamlet

2. From what narrative perspective is The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender related?
(a) Fourth-person
(b) Second-person
(c) Third-person
(d) First-person

3. What does Henry come screaming to his mother, causing her great alarm, in the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Cat on the wall!
(b) She’s flying!
(c) Pinna hurt!
(d) Bee in the bush!

4. The narrator describes Viviane in Chapter 4 as instigating a neighborhood rivalry with the kids from what area?
(a) Oak Park
(b) The Bronx
(c) Phinney Ridge
(d) Brooklyn

5. Where did Gabe live with his mother when he was a child, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) Los Angeles, California
(b) Brooklyn, New York
(c) Sacramento, California
(d) San Francisco, California

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava say “etoile de mer” translates to from French in Chapter 11?

2. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 13?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 12 that Viviane “could close her eyes and know the season just by” what?

4. What color hair is Emilienne described as having in the novel?

5. What term from Chapter 19 refers to the dancing spirits of rain and fertility in the mythology of the Hopis?

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