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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the Grandfather name as the one "that's the way out of this hole" (199) in the novel's final line?
(a) Trusting oneself.
(b) Fleeing from the darkness.
(c) Pursuing the light.
(d) Forgiving one's enemies.

2. The boys featured in Chapter I see a corpse floating in which type of body of water?
(a) Lake.
(b) Bog.
(c) River.
(d) Canal.

3. What emotion does the Grandfather feel as he sees "fat clouds [draw] a dim veil across the sky"? (198)
(a) Sadness.
(b) Relief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Nostalgia.

4. Munra was shocked and appalled when he learned from Luismi that Norma was how many years old?
(a) 17.
(b) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

5. What action taken by some of the parishioners at his church fascinated Brando as a child?
(a) Speaking in tongues.
(b) Recitations.
(c) Singing.
(d) Handling of snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are rumors that the Witch turned into all but which of the following creatures just before her physical death?

2. Whose men were the first to appear at the Witch's house after her body was found in the water?

3. Which character passed out on a bench in the park and did not therefore get a ride with Munra?

4. What kind of natural disaster happened the year the Witch's mother died?

5. The Grandfather tells the boys from the morgue that the hole he has dug will hold how many more bodies?

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