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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the children doing as the novel begins?
(a) Waking up.
(b) Playing in the garden.
(c) Saying grace before dinner.
(d) Going to bed.

2. Who repeats variations of the phrase, "I will gather my flowers and present them--Oh! to whom?"
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Susan.

3. What does the italicized prose at the beginning of the first section describe?
(a) The sun at midday.
(b) The clouds covering the sun.
(c) The moon rising in the sky.
(d) A day yet to begin.

4. Who arrives to pick up Rhoda at the end of Section 1?
(a) Her Aunt.
(b) Miss Hudson.
(c) Biddy.
(d) Percival.

5. Why is one of the characters not permitted to go on the walk in Section 1?
(a) The character is considered too sickly.
(b) The character has to picked up by an aunt.
(c) The character has to go to the playing fields.
(d) The character has to finish grammar exercises.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the female characters seems most content with her place in life when the reader encounters her in Section 3?

2. What makes Jinny feel "native" in her environment?

3. Whose "mind is far too complex to be roused by any single activity"?

4. Who tells Rhoda in Section 1 that someone has arrived to pick her up?

5. Who hears "something stamping"?

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