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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a person not suited in behavior or attitude to his social environment?
(a) Misfit
(b) Captor
(c) Investigator
(d) Martyr

2. What year is it when Emilienne’s family immigrates to the United States?
(a) 1951
(b) 1916
(c) 1889
(d) 1912

3. How does Emilienne’s husband die in the novel?
(a) He is hanged
(b) He is shot in the back
(c) He has a heart attack
(d) He falls from a cliff

4. What is the name of the man that Emilienne marries and moves to Seattle with in Chapter 2?
(a) Connor Lavender
(b) John Griffith
(c) William Peyton
(d) Beauregard Lavender

5. What is the name of the ship that Emilienne’s family boards for the United States in Chapter 1?
(a) The SS Portugal
(b) The SS France
(c) The SS Titanic
(d) The SS Manhatine

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the narrator say Emilienne Roux fell in love before her nineteenth birthday in Chapter 1?

2. What does Wilhelmina leave in the place of the loaf of bread she takes from the bakery when she first visits in Chapter 3?

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

4. On what date is Ava Lavender born in the narrative?

5. When Wilhelmina first meets Emilienne in Chapter 3, she tells her, “Rumor has it you’re the neighborhood” what?

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