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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 37 - 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What season is it as the novel opens?
(a) Fall
(b) Summer
(c) Spring
(d) Winter

2. What is Tom relieved by when they return home?
(a) Mother's cooking
(b) The ice cream he purchased
(c) The sound of his father returning
(d) Douglas' sweat

3. Which of the following terms is an antonym for the term jubilant?
(a) Triumphant
(b) Delighted
(c) Disappointed
(d) Euphoric

4. What does Douglas' father speak about the wonders of?
(a) Death
(b) Life
(c) Animals
(d) Nature

5. What does Douglas question about his friends?
(a) Why they do not want to spend time with him
(b) Why they seem more alive
(c) When they will come to a new sense of being
(d) How they will spend the summer

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does this novel begin?

2. What is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?

3. What habit of Tom's gives Douglas an idea?

4. How much does Grandfather pay the boys for the dandelions they collect?

5. What does mother call the specter of death?

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