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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leopolda's big key open?
(a) The closet where the Dark One is hiding.
(b) The larder where the food is kept.
(c) The medicine closet where she keeps the salve.
(d) The iron stove.

2. While Albertine is changing in the bathroom, Henry:
(a) Gets sick and passes out.
(b) Has a flashback to Viet Nam.
(c) Feels a desperate need to get home and leaves.
(d) Tells her stories through the door.

3. The fading tattoo on Beverly's arm is:
(a) A cat.
(b) His brother's name, rank,and serial number.
(c) A bird that appears to fly as he flexes his muscles.
(d) Lulu's name in a crest.

4. Rushes Bear admits she has come to stay with Marie because:
(a) She has disowned her other children.
(b) Her husband has gotten remarried.
(c) She is about to die.
(d) She has nowhere else to go.

5. The neighborhood gossips come around asking about what?
(a) The information Marie has about their husbands and children.
(b) Why June refuses to come to church, though she wears a rosary.
(c) Why Eli spends time at the house and alone in the woods with June.
(d) Why Nector goes into the woods alone with June.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beverly rationalizes his tryst with Lulu after Henry's funeral as:

2. The fish images in the story imply:

3. When Lulu goes to her bedroom to lay down and "wait," what does this imply?

4. Henry shrieks when Albertine touches him because:

5. In one sense, the title of the chapter, "A bridge," comes from:

(see the answer key)

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