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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come My Soul, That Hath Long Languished, Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of school do Loretta's children attend?
(a) A Catholic school.
(b) A Hebrew school.
(c) An inner-city public school.
(d) Loretta home-schools them.

2. What does Jules focus on after his father's death?
(a) Getting good grades, to be able to attend college.
(b) Becoming the man of the family.
(c) Trying to set his mother up with a good man.
(d) Making money to escape his life of poverty.

3. What is Maureen beginning to be able to do in Chapter 7 of the second book?
(a) She can walk and feed herself.
(b) She is fully recovered.
(c) She can read and write again.
(d) She can hear the voices and sounds in the house.

4. What does Loretta do every night while waiting for Pat to come home?
(a) Goes to bed.
(b) Darns socks.
(c) Reads.
(d) Does dishes.

5. What does Jules tell Vera about love?
(a) That he no longer believes it is real.
(b) That he wants it more than anything.
(c) That he thinks it is impossible to live without it.
(d) That he once thought it was impossible to live without it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what condition is Maureen at the beginning of the second book?

2. How might Nadine's emotions be described?

3. How old is Loretta at the beginning of the novel?

4. Why does Maureen want to get married?

5. When Maureen's recovery begins, how long has she been in her catatonic state?

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