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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say she didn't "walk the rest" at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) She doesn't know the townspeople in the procession.
(b) She doesn't know who the procession is for.
(c) She is too busy with her work.
(d) She realizes that she is not a member of the community.

2. How does Mrs. Blackett manage her advanced age?
(a) She has William to help her.
(b) She worries that she is becoming senile.
(c) She continues to live an active life.
(d) She walks with a cane.

3. Why didn't Mrs. Todd marry her first love?
(a) She met and married Mr. Todd
(b) His mother didn't approve.
(c) He died young.
(d) He fell in love with someone else.

4. What conclusion about the Captain's beliefs can be drawn from his conversation with the narrator?
(a) He tends not to believe in life after death.
(b) He believes that seafaring is dangerous.
(c) He tends to believe in life after death.
(d) He believes that sailors cannot be trusted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator encounter on Shell-Heap Island in Chapter 15?

2. What does Captain Littlepage say about the townspeople?

3. When does the narrator need to have her writing project finished?

4. Where did the Captain's experience described in Chapter 5 take place?

5. What natural landscape influences life in the community?

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