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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What duty of Birk's does Marianne take over that makes a huge difference at the Co-Op?
(a) Fundraising.
(b) Baking bread.
(c) Working in the garden.
(d) Keeping the duty roster up to date.

2. What does Judd think bothers his brother, Mike, the most about their sister's rape?
(a) Judd thinks Mike is upset because everyone is making such a big thing out of it.
(b) Judd thinks Mike is taking the rape as a slap in his face.
(c) Judd thinks Mike is upset because he didn't protect her.
(d) Judd thinks Mike is upset because no one talks about it.

3. On the morning following her trip to the funeral, what does Abelove ask Marianne about Hewie?
(a) What Hewie said about him while they were away.
(b) If she loves Hewie.
(c) What Hewie did to her.
(d) Why she asked him for a ride.

4. How many hours does Marianne work at the Co-Op a week?
(a) Sixty or seventy.
(b) Fifty or sixty.
(c) Forty or fifty.
(d) Thirty or forty.

5. What does Judd say about setting down the truth of this story?
(a) This is a work of pure fiction.
(b) Most of the story is true, but he did fabricate some to make it interesting.
(c) The story is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
(d) Judd got some information first hand, and some from memory and conversations with family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Corrine say leads her mother and her to safety in the snow storm?

2. What doesn't Marianne take with her?

3. Where does most of the story take place?

4. Why does Marianne like to do ironing?

5. What do some of the people at the Co-Op suspect Abelove knows?

(see the answer key)

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