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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hard Reckoning: On My Own.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Michael Mulvaney Sr. go in the chapter titled "Dignity?"
(a) To work.
(b) To the store.
(c) Mt. Ephraim Country Club.
(d) To Ithaca to visit Patrick.

2. How does the family refer to the word rape?
(a) As, "The night the world changed".
(b) They never spoke about it, ever.
(c) As, "You know what."
(d) As, "it".

3. What does the ringing of the cowbell signify to the Mulvaney family?
(a) Ringing the cowbell signals a phone call for someone who isn't in the house.
(b) Ringing the cowbell means the parents want to talk to the children.
(c) Ringing the cowbell signals an outing.
(d) Ringing the cowbell signals dinner.

4. Who is Jill James?
(a) A friend of Corrine's from high school.
(b) Marianne's best friend.
(c) Marianne's homeroom teacher.
(d) The therapist Marianne is sent to see.

5. What does Corrine find when she goes to pick up her husband after a late night call saying he couldn't drive home?
(a) Michael playing pool with his buddies.
(b) Michael with another woman.
(c) Michael drunk and with injuries he got from a bar room fight.
(d) Michael sleeping peacefully.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judd notice about his father and the people around them at Patrick's graduation?

2. When Corrine and Judd visit Marianne what does the Co-Op Director, Abelove, say that upsets Corrine?

3. How does Corrine feel about the Mt. Ephraim Country Club?

4. What does Michael do for what seems no apparent reason while at the Yankee Doodle Tap Room?

5. What happens to Marianne when she cries while shoveling snow?

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