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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hard Reckoning: On My Own.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Marianne's horse?
(a) Muffin.
(b) Molly-O.
(c) Ranger.
(d) Silky.

2. What metaphor does Patrick use to explain what's happened to their father?
(a) Their father is a casualty of war.
(b) Their father has fallen off his pedestal.
(c) A frog whose life is sucked out of it by a giant water spider.
(d) Their father is a child who no one wants to play with.

3. Who is Jill James?
(a) The therapist Marianne is sent to see.
(b) Marianne's best friend.
(c) A friend of Corrine's from high school.
(d) Marianne's homeroom teacher.

4. What does Abelove say about Marianne's relationship with the Co-Op?
(a) He wanted her to take charge of the kitchen.
(b) He wanted her to be an Associate Director.
(c) He wanted her to be manager of the gardens.
(d) He wanted to put her in charge of looking for benefactors.

5. What does the ringing of the cowbell signify to the Mulvaney family?
(a) Ringing the cowbell means the parents want to talk to the children.
(b) Ringing the cowbell signals dinner.
(c) Ringing the cowbell signals an outing.
(d) Ringing the cowbell signals a phone call for someone who isn't in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Judd reply when Patrick asks how their mother is taking the sale of the farm?

2. What does Patrick mean by "Chance follows design"?

3. How does Judd find out what really happened to Marianne?

4. What words does Michael say at Schroon Lake that Corrine remembers twenty-four years later as she sits in Dr. Oakley's office?

5. What happens when Judd asks his mother if Marianne is sick?

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