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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sondra's profession?
(a) She is in-home care nurse.
(b) She is a schoolteacher.
(c) She is a day trader.
(d) She is an educational administrator.

2. When she was in eighth grade, Willa argued with her teacher that Cat Stevens was the modern-day equivalent of what poet?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Walt Whitman.

3. Where did Mr. Nailbourne move after leaving Rose's family's home?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Idaho.

4. According to Christopher Hawk in Chapter 7, when did Captain Landis buy the land in Vineland?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1855.

5. How does Willa describe the landscape of New Jersey in comparison to the other places she has lived?
(a) Craggy.
(b) Flat.
(c) Hilly.
(d) Mountainous.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the narrator say Willa had spent in Boston in Chapter 3?

2. How old is Polly said to be in Chapter 2?

3. How does Helene die?

4. What servant in Thatcher's home has given her notice in Chapter 16?

5. What mosquito-borne disease is described as appearing in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the radio news that Willa observes in Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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