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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, 17, 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What specialty is revealed during the dessert course?
(a) A gingerbread model of the Bowdens' homestead.
(b) A gingerbread model of Dunnet Landing.
(c) A chocolate cake made using the Bowdens' own recipe.
(d) A chocolate model of the Bowdens' garden.

2. Besides Captain Littlepage, who else knows of Gaffett's story?
(a) Just Gaffett.
(b) Just the other survivors of Gaffett's shipwreck.
(c) Just the other survivors of Littlepage's shipwreck.
(d) No one - Gaffett himself is long since dead.

3. How does the narrator react to the Captain's story?
(a) She believes that the story is true.
(b) She is skeptical.
(c) She believes that a man like the Captain can only tell the truth.
(d) She has always believed in such things.

4. Under which pretense does Mrs. Todd come to the schoolhouse to visit the narrator?
(a) She is looking for tansy.
(b) She has an herbal mixture for the narrator.
(c) She needs some advice.
(d) She is looking for plantains.

5. What conclusion did Gaffett draw from his experience?
(a) The people were hermits.
(b) You can only trust yourself.
(c) The people were ghosts waiting for passage to another life.
(d) Luck is the only thing that can keep you alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator react to the relative isolation of Mrs. Todd's home after coming back from Mrs. Blackett's?

2. Where does Joanna go after the engagement is broken?

3. How do the townspeople react to Joanna?

4. Why does the Captain believe he knows "the truth" about life after death?

5. How do others in the community feel about Mrs. Fosdick?

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