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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Gertie's mother talks about in the sitting room with Gertie?
(a) How proud she is of Gertie
(b) Disappointment in Gertie
(c) Ill health
(d) Faith in the Bible

2. Why does Gertie direct the mule into the path of the car?
(a) To make them stop to help
(b) To try to kill herself
(c) She could not control the mule
(d) To make the car crash

3. Where does Clovis want to take the children to go visiting?
(a) Clovis' parents
(b) The neighbor's home
(c) To visit Amos in the clinic
(d) Gertie's parents

4. Where does Gertie move?
(a) Into Tipton Place
(b) In with Old John
(c) Her mother-in-law's house
(d) Her mother's house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gertie hope to buy one day?

2. Which word does Gertie use to describe the type of carving Gertie does not do?

3. What derogatory term do the people in the train station call Gertie?

4. Which word best describes how Gertie feels about affection attempts from her husband?

5. What happens to Cassie at school which causes the other children to tease her and for her to become more withdrawn?

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