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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 181 - 244).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Olive Lawrence's effect on Nathaniel's view of women?
(a) Nathaniel finds Olive sexually attractive and is always looking for women that remind him of her later in life.
(b) Nathaniel finds Olive fascinating and Olive is the first woman he meets that makes him want to seek out other women's company.
(c) Nathaniel finds Olive very much like his mother, and he misses his mother whenever she is around.
(d) Nathaniel finds Olive suspicious so he never trusts women easily.

2. What does the person who finds Rose Williams' body do after he finds her?
(a) Tries to revive her.
(b) Moves her body, then calls the number she had given him.
(c) Washes her body.
(d) Cleans up the house and the scene of the crime.

3. What injury does Marsh Felon sustain in his fall from Rose's roof?
(a) Two broken legs.
(b) A broken arm.
(c) A broken neck.
(d) A broken hip.

4. What do the men who seize Rachel and Nathaniel outside the Bark Theater drug them with?
(a) Chloroform.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Ether.
(d) Amphetamines.

5. What wisdom does Olive Lawrence murmur to Nathaniel that comes back to him as an adult?
(a) Forgive your parents their sins, for you do not know what they have suffered.
(b) We need other people to fill in what we can not remember ourselves.
(c) The self is not the principal thing.
(d) The past is a foreign country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary character does Nathaniel hear might be based on Arthur McCash later in his life?

2. What does Marsh Felon use as a means to demonstrate to Rose the importance of knowing how to extract oneself from somewhere?

3. What does Olive Lawrence tell Nathaniel and Rachel she does for a living?

4. What does Olive Lawrence seem capable of to Nathaniel that none of the other visitors to his house seem capable of?

5. Which illness does Rachel develop as a child?

(see the answer key)

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