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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long has Elijah lived alone?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Eight years.

3. 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.

4. What happens to Mrs. Blackett upon arrival?
(a) She is asked to be the guest of honor.
(b) She is immediately whisked away by others.
(c) She injures herself stepping out of the carriage.
(d) The crowd of visitors ignores her.

5. What piece of information does Mrs. Todd reveal to the narrator?
(a) That she is in love with Captain Littlepage.
(b) That her husband never truly loved her.
(c) That she truly loved someone else.
(d) That she never loved her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare Captain Littlepage's gait to?

2. What conclusion about the Captain's beliefs can be drawn from his conversation with the narrator?

3. What do the narrator, Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Blackett conclude is the only drawback to the day?

4. Under which pretense does Mrs. Todd come to the schoolhouse to visit the narrator?

5. On Shell-Heap Island, the narrator muses that each person has a place inside in which what is kept?

(see the answer key)

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