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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Senator Simon Adams deliver in Chapter 1?
(a) A pie baked by his mother.
(b) Healing chicken stock.
(c) A ticket to California.
(d) Some old clothes and rags.

2. Who are Gloria and Kitty?
(a) Rhonda's sisters.
(b) Ruth's niece's.
(c) Ruth's school friends.
(d) Mary's aunts.

3. Why had Mary always been treated with suspicion by the islanders?
(a) Because she was an orphan and an immigrant.
(b) Because she often told lies as a child.
(c) Because she was rude and cold towards them.
(d) Because she was far smarter than the islanders.

4. How old is Lanford Ellis in Chapter 3?
(a) Ninety- four years old.
(b) Eighty-one years old.
(c) Eighty-six years old.
(d) Seventy-nine years old.

5. What is Senator Simon Adams terrified of?
(a) Fire.
(b) The sea.
(c) Monsters.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not contribute to the distinctive population?

2. What will Lanford give Ruth $300 for in Chapter 3?

3. How does Simon try to help Rhonda financially?

4. Why do the islanders shun Ruth?

5. What does Ruth say to her mother when she sees her at the end of Chapter 5?

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