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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20, 21, 22 and 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gertie have to help the children get into for their first day of school?
(a) Snowsuits
(b) Bookbags
(c) Uniforms
(d) Taxi cab

2. Why does Gertie vomit?
(a) The unfamiliar feeling, sights and smells of the train
(b) Nerves from traveling with the children
(c) Did not want to go to Detroit
(d) Pregnancy

3. Who does Gertie's mother say leads Henley into heathenism?
(a) Clovis
(b) Gertie
(c) No one
(d) Gertie's father

4. Into what interest has Clytie become absorbed?
(a) Clovis's work
(b) School plays
(c) Reuben's fights
(d) Radio dramas

5. What does Gertie enjoy imagining?
(a) Henley still being alive
(b) Life for Clovis once he is in the Army
(c) Life after her children are grown
(d) Her life at Tipton Place

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following jobs does Joe hold?

2. Which of the children could be described using the term prissy?

3. What does Max tell Gertie she needs?

4. Why did Reuben cut the crooked cedar?

5. Which of the following is not something Gertie's mother talks about in the sitting room with Gertie?

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