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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bernard doing at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Writing a letter.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Talking to Percival.
(d) Meeting Susan.

2. What effect does Percival's presence have on the characters when he arrives in Section 4?
(a) It causes them to leave.
(b) It enrages them.
(c) It confuses them.
(d) It calms them.

3. Which of the girls is first to speak in Section 2?
(a) Susan.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Miss Lambert.

4. What are the two dominant images of Section 8's introduction?
(a) The waves receding as the sun burns brighter.
(b) The nighttime sky and the calm waters.
(c) Both the waves and the sun are sinking in power.
(d) The sun sinking as the waves become the dominant image.

5. In Section 7, how does the poem which Louis muses on begin?
(a) "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan . . ."
(b) "One must have a mind of winter . . ."
(c) "The rain set early in to-night . . ."
(d) "O western wind . . ."

Short Answer Questions

1. What one word is repeated throughout Susan's monologue in Section 6?

2. Who notices the hand-holding between two characters in Section 8?

3. What is the name of the cook at school?

4. What is the dominant feature of the monologues during the middle of Section 8?

5. What are the children doing as the novel begins?

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