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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pilgrim: Rag-Quilt Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Patrick use to explain what's happened to their father?
(a) Their father has fallen off his pedestal.
(b) Their father is a casualty of war.
(c) A frog whose life is sucked out of it by a giant water spider.
(d) Their father is a child who no one wants to play with.

2. What is Judd thinking as he listens to his heartbeat?
(a) That he had a loud heartbeat.
(b) Every heatbeat is past and gone.
(c) That he wanted to be a doctor someday.
(d) That he had a strong heartbeat.

3. What words of Abelove's have a grimly prophetic tone?
(a) "Gone but never forgotten."
(b) "Vanished off the face of the Earth."
(c) "Disappeared without a trace."
(d) "Up in smoke."

4. When does Abelove discover that Marianne has left the Co-Op?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Early evening.
(c) Late in the day.
(d) At dinner.

5. How does Judd feel about Patrick's plan?
(a) He's uncertain Patrick is strong enough to do it.
(b) He's afraid Patrick won't do it right.
(c) He thinks Patrick will change his mind.
(d) None of the answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Judd, what does Patrick's request seem to be?

2. What does Judd realize as he listens to his heartbeat?

3. What doesn't Marianne take with her?

4. What does one realize about Judd in the opening of the chapter, "Every Heartbeat?"

5. In the chapter, "Rag-Quilt Life," what does Marianne say before she leaves the Co-Op?

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