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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many races had Joan run prior to the New Year's Day race?
(a) None.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

2. Where did Joan and her husband meet?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Penn State.

3. In Chapter 4, Riptide, what did Joan get up each morning to watch?
(a) Joshua Cahoon jogging.
(b) The neighborhood children walking to school.
(c) Her husband walking the dog.
(d) The sunrise.

4. Who honked her horn and flashed her lights and encouraged an exhausted Joan to continue the race when Joan was about to quit?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Joan Erickson.
(c) A lady cop.
(d) The fish market owner's wife.

5. Once Joan's husband left in Chapter 1, Ebb Tide, how did Joan react?
(a) She rejoiced.
(b) She begged him to come back.
(c) She became afraid.
(d) She cried.

6. How did the seals respond when Joan dove into the ocean?
(a) They ignored her.
(b) They attacked her.
(c) They swam away from her.
(d) They swam alongside her.

7. Which of the following items was not something Joan wished she had brought with her to the seal island?
(a) Sunscreen.
(b) An umbrella.
(c) Better food.
(d) Hairspray.

8. Why did Joan and her husband decide to spend Christmas together during their separation year?
(a) They wanted to make a show of unity for their children.
(b) They missed each other.
(c) Neither of them wanted to be alone.
(d) They wanted to make Joan's ailing mother happy.

9. Which of the following is not something for which Joan's writing money paid during her marriage?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Most of the family's extras.
(c) The mortgage.
(d) Her children's education.

10. How soon before Christmas was Joan's husband scheduled to arrive at the cottage?
(a) Two days.
(b) He was not coming.
(c) One week.
(d) One day.

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

12. How did the other patrons of Larry's PX respond when Joan entered?
(a) They stood up to greet her.
(b) They stopped talking for a few minutes.
(c) They bought her drinks.
(d) They forbade her to enter the all-male establishment.

13. Why did Joan think she was better off than the rich local women who bought fish from her in the market?
(a) She was useful in a job, unlike them.
(b) She was free while they had to live by their husbands' rules.
(c) She was a writer.
(d) Her children were grown.

14. What did Joan's neighbor think of Joan's job at the fish market?
(a) That it was work Joan would love.
(b) That it was easy work.
(c) That it would pay Joan well.
(d) That it was men's work.

15. Why did Joan have trouble finding something to wear to the fish market's Christmas party?
(a) She had brought only jeans to Cape Code.
(b) There were no clothing stores in the town.
(c) She had gained weight and her clothes no longer fit her.
(d) She didn't have money for a party outfit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements was not one of Joan's thoughts about the remark that she had everything she wanted?

2. How did Joan meet her new friend, Joan Erickson.?

3. In Chapter 6, Waves of Truth, why did Joan think women looked exhausted as the holidays approached?

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

5. What color was the inside of Nickerson's Fish Market painted?

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