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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Quoyle's favorite child?
(a) Jane.
(b) Quoyle.
(c) Petal.
(d) Dick.

2. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?
(a) Primitive and ignorant.
(b) Being unable to speak.
(c) Musical.
(d) Reversion to an earlier type.

3. Why does Petal telephone Quoyle from Montgomery?
(a) To ask him to join her there.
(b) To ask him how to cure a hangover.
(c) To tell him she is divorcing him.
(d) To ask him how to make an Alabama Slammer.

4. For how many years was Quoyle married to Petal?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven and a half.

5. In what city did Quoyle and Partridge meet?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Toronto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .

2. Which character 'sleeps as quiet as an eggbeater'?

3. What group does Reverend Stain belong to?

4. Who buys sea urchin roe?

5. Why does Sunshine exclaim that it is 'a ladder house'?

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