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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the family hide their shame from the neighborhood?
(a) They take a car ride home instead of walking.
(b) Russell and Lucy place their coats over the food.
(c) Russell and Lucy send Doris ahead as a distraction.
(d) They collect the food in the dead of night.

2. What happens to Russell's mother at the age of eighty?
(a) She has her last bad fall.
(b) She moves from New Jersey to California.
(c) She gets her thirtieth grandchild.
(d) She becomes a millionaire.

3. What is Herb's only vice?
(a) Smoking cigarettes.
(b) Drinking alcohol.
(c) Going to nightclubs.
(d) Betting on horses.

4. How does Lucy mark Russell's transition into adolescence?
(a) She buys him a cap.
(b) She throws a dinner party.
(c) She makes a large mark on the height chart.
(d) She purchases long pants for him.

5. As part of Morrisonville's ritual for death, what do the women do at Russell's house?
(a) They rearrange all the furniture.
(b) They whitewash the outside.
(c) They clean it from top to bottom.
(d) They take inventory of everything the family owns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who doesn't Uncle Hal get along with in the house?

2. How long does it take for Joe Louis to defeat Max Schmeling?

3. What two women in Russell's early life were involved in a hateful feud?

4. What is Russell's mother's nickname for him?

5. What does Mr. Simmons do from the hole in the cellar ceiling?

(see the answer key)

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