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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that Julia's return to Rain Valley is "only the second time she'd been back since" (54) what event?
(a) Her high school reunion.
(b) Her father's funeral.
(c) Her mother's funeral.
(d) Her grandmother's funeral.

2. To what part of a "mythic, sleeping beast" (50) are the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest compared within the text?
(a) Its spine.
(b) Its horn.
(c) Its jaws.
(d) Its claws.

3. How many blocks in length is the town of Rain Valley?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

4. How many dollars per hour is Julia said to make in her psychiatric practice?
(a) $75.
(b) $200.
(c) $50.
(d) $100.

5. What is the only detail Ellie shares with Julia about the situation for which she needs help?
(a) The case involves a child.
(b) The case involves abandonment.
(c) The case involves elective mutism.
(d) The case involves paranoid schizophrenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Ellie recall having her first kiss beneath the same maple tree in which Girl is sitting?

2. On what part of Girl's body does Max find evidence of ligature marks?

3. The narrator states that for Julia, everything "in the past year, every thought and deed, led her back to" (51) what emotion?

4. Julia's mother, the person named as the only one who "had believed in a bright future for Julia," (50) had not lived long enough to see which milestone in Julia's life?

5. When Julia decides in the middle of the night to begin writing a book, she ends up "surrounded by balled-up yellow wads of paper," (46) all of which say only which two words?

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