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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Shell-Heap Island, the narrator muses that each person has a place inside in which what is kept?
(a) Great regrets and great happiness.
(b) Our greatest sorrows.
(c) Our greatest humiliations.
(d) Our deepest emotions.

2. What conclusion about the narrator's beliefs can be drawn from her conversation with Captain Littlepage?
(a) She believes that the Captain is crazy.
(b) She does not believe in life after death.
(c) She tends not to believe in Gaffert's story.
(d) She believes that sailors cannot be trusted.

3. What punishment does Joanna inflict on herself?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Endless work on the island.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Isolation from others.

4. What advice does Joanna give Mrs. Todd?
(a) That she should love her husband.
(b) That she should move to the island.
(c) That she should take better care of her mother.
(d) That she should divorce her husband.

5. What did Gaffett and his companion discover after sailing away from the shipwreck?
(a) The ship's cargo.
(b) More suvivors.
(c) An island.
(d) A town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Gaffett and his companion left "the waiting place"?

2. What does Elijah do that causes him to shed a tear while talking to the narrator?

3. How does the narrator engage Elijah in conversation?

4. What does the narrator stop to study on her walk?

5. When does Joanna ask Mrs. Todd to return?

(see the answer key)

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