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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author describing in the prologue?
(a) Wanda's small YMCA room.
(b) Irma's small apartment.
(c) The bowling alley where Striker works.
(d) Margaret's sleeping house.

2. What does Wanda notice in chapter 15 is one common thread among many of the people responding to Margaret's ad for a new roommate?
(a) They are all doctors.
(b) They are all registered nurses.
(c) They are all college students.
(d) They are all in theater.

3. What does Oscar Hauptmann tell Margaret caused the death of her mother?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Cancer.
(d) An explosion in the brain, an aneurysm.

4. Who is diagnosed with a dire health ailment in chapter 1?
(a) Irma Kominsky.
(b) Margaret Hughes.
(c) M.J.Striker.
(d) Wanda Schultz.

5. What is primary or residual clay?
(a) Clay that is used first.
(b) Clay that has never been moved from its origin.
(c) Clay that is in its purest form.
(d) Clay that makes porcelain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the one person Margaret felt was not happy in her household when she was a child?

2. What is the point of view used in chapter 1 of part 1?

3. How many children do the Schultzes have?

4. Whose bedroom does Wanda now occupy in Margaret's house?

5. What type of classes did one of the potential applicants for Margaret's roommate did the woman want to hold in the house?

(see the answer key)

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