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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What saying hung in the classroom on Pat Conroy's visit?
(a) Just do it.
(b) Learn and all will follow.
(c) Dream it and do it.
(d) Education is the key to success.

2. What could interfere with Lou's mail delivery on the island?
(a) Her bad back.
(b) Weather and her mood.
(c) Dogs not tied up.
(d) A broken mail truck.

3. What ends Pat Conroy's desire to swim at Yamacraw?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Sloth.

4. Who does Pat Conroy live with at the end of October?
(a) Ted Stone.
(b) An island family.
(c) Mrs. Brown.
(d) His family.

5. How long after Pat Conroy stops teaching does he write The Water is Wide?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) One year.
(d) Immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Pat Conroy, what makes the Skimberry's interesting people?

2. What do the boys wear to graduation?

3. What does Top Cat do with the tape recorder?

4. Who is the first classical artist Pat Conroy plays for his class?

5. The islanders fear what, if Pat Conroy no longer teaches on the island?

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