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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Reta discover behind the furnace that belonged to the previous owners?
(a) An invitation to a baby shower.
(b) A love letter.
(c) A confession of infidelity.
(d) A child's report card.

2. What does Reta discuss with the person she visits after her encounter with Norah in early November?
(a) Literary matters.
(b) Feminist intellectuals.
(c) Marriage and divorce.
(d) Children of war.

3. What task do Reta and Tom engage in after the package is delivered to the Winters' home?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Reading.

4. What troubles Norah when she comes home one weekend her second year at university?
(a) Norah is upset that she cannot spend more time with her sisters.
(b) Norah is afraid that she will disappoint her parents by failing school.
(c) Norah is anxious about her decision to live with her boyfriend.
(d) Norah is disturbed by the sense that she cannot love anyone enough.

5. Who is playing the piano when Reta and Tom have finished their work after their package is delivered?
(a) Christine.
(b) Natalie.
(c) Lois.
(d) Norah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom's friend, Colin Glass, try to explain to Norah when he comes over for dinner?

2. What is delivered to the house that is emblematic of life going on in the Winters' household?

3. What is Reta's struggle about what a writer of fiction should give the reader?

4. Why does Reta write a letter of complaint to an editor of a literary magazine about a series of books called "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual World"?

5. How does Tessa discover the mystery of Norah's disappearance six months prior?

(see the answer key)

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