The Great Alone Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Cora laments that Leni has said “I won’t leave you” too many times in her life (390). Why is that sentence so painful to Cora? (from Chapters 27-29)

Leni has always been too stubborn to do what is right.

Cora has been holding Leni back from safety and happiness.

Leni is too self-sacrificing.

Leni has made all the sacrifices for Cora that Cora should have made for Leni.

2.

After the first beating, Leni and Ernt sit in silence as the VW radio broadcasts messages between distant loved ones. Which elements lend this scene its irony? (from Chapters 10-11)

Leni and Ernt’s silence and the radio’s noise.

The people on the radio may reach out in time, but it is too late for Leni and Ernt.

Leni and Ernt’s physical proximity but emotional distance.

The cold in the car and the emotional warmth on the radio.

3.

Leni, through the narrator, interjects that Matthew can be certain of the college plan “because he knew how to dream and to believe” (258). Which word best describes this character trait in Matthew? (from Chapters 17-19)

Blind faith.

Naïveté.

Optimism.

Positivism.

4.

Characters and narrator frequently comment on the connection between Ernt’s drinking and his temper. Which statement best describes their precise connection? (from Chapters 8-9)

They are both caused by his trauma.

Guilt from his temper drives him to drink.

The drinking causes his violent outbursts.

He drinks when he is already feeling violent, worsening those feelings.

5.

Leni compares Geneva's death to literary death scenes. What is the main difference, according to her? (from Chapters 8-9)

In real life, death provides no sense of closure.

Only deaths in books have meaning.

The sadness is the same but comes from different sources.

Deaths in real life are numbing, deaths in books emotional.

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