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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Seal Woman, and Chapter 11, Ebb and Flow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Seal Sense Analysis, who gave Joan some clams he had dug up?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The local pastor.
(c) Her younger son.
(d) Joshua Cahoon.

2. In Chapter 2, The Call of the Seal, what was Joan's only daily outing for her first three weeks on the island?
(a) Going to the laundromat.
(b) Picking her daughter up from school.
(c) Walking her dog.
(d) Going to the post office.

3. Who was Hazel?
(a) An old friend of Joan.
(b) Joan's cousin.
(c) Joan's daughter-in-law.
(d) Joshua Cahoon's wife.

4. From whom did Joan get the wobbly kitchen table in the cottage?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Joshua Cahoon.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. In Chapter 4, Riptide, with what did Joan think she needed to fall in love?
(a) The book she was writing.
(b) Her life and herself.
(c) Nature.
(d) The cottage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson did the seals teach Joan?

2. What news did Joan get about her house in the city after her return from the seal island?

3. Where would Joan go before she went to meetings with editors?

4. Approximately how many other runners showed up with Joan to participate in the New Year's Day race?

5. When Joan's father died, which relative angered Joan by not attending his funeral?

(see the answer key)

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