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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of a dog did Joan and John have in 1987?
(a) Bouvier.
(b) Labradoodle.
(c) Poodle.
(d) Golden Retriever.

2. Who wrote a book about her husband's death that Joan despised?
(a) Caitlin Thomas.
(b) Mary Beth Crain.
(c) Lynn Caine.
(d) Barbara Barth.

3. When was Quintana allowed to fly back to New York?
(a) March.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) April.

4. What Matthew Arnold poem did Joan mention reading in Chapter 4?
(a) Dover Beach.
(b) The Forsaken Merman.
(c) The Buried Life.
(d) A Dream.

5. What landslide seemed to bury the house that Joan and Joan lived when they first married?
(a) San Leandra landslide.
(b) Blucher Valley landslide.
(c) Las Lomas landslide.
(d) Portuguese Bend landslide.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what peninsula was John and Joan's first house of their married life?

2. Who wrote, "Time is the school in which we learn"?

3. How old was Joan when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

4. What did Joan watch from the windows at UCLA?

5. What year was it when John and Joan were at a red light and saw the driver suddenly slump over his steering wheel?

(see the answer key)

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