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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand, Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The portrait Olsen has painted of Helga is
(a) A mocking likeness.
(b) Demure and soft.
(c) Exotic and wild.
(d) Exact and lifelike.

2. Helga decides to ask her maternal uncle for help because
(a) Her mother would have wanted it.
(b) Her father's relatives hate her.
(c) Her father's wealth has disappeared.
(d) She knows he will take her in.

3. In the sophisticated crowd, James Vayle seems
(a) Highly principled.
(b) Young and innocent.
(c) Silly and under-dressed.
(d) Like a country boy.

4. Helga is angry at herself because
(a) She is too beautiful to be a teacher.
(b) Her colleagues like their jobs.
(c) Her teaching has been ineffective.
(d) Her students think she is too young.

5. Helga's step-siblings were
(a) Danish children.
(b) Black children.
(c) Mulatto children.
(d) White children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne secretly knows that Dr. Anderson might

2. Helga now feels alienated from

3. Anne Grey symbolizes

4. Helga could never marry

5. Peter's wife told Helga her presence was not

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