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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lila teach her children to do?
(a) She taught them to judge people based on appearances.
(b) She taught them to hide their wounds with lies.
(c) She taught them to always follow their dreams.
(d) She taught them to respect nature in all its beauty.

2. What does Tom say that Grandmother Tolitha did immediately following Papa John's death?
(a) She went back to Grandpa Wingo.
(b) She traveled the world until her money ran out.
(c) She moved into a nursing home.
(d) She became a religious fanatic.

3. Which of the following characters dies during the storm?
(a) Amos.
(b) Lila.
(c) Esther.
(d) Sarah.

4. Why does Tolitha ask Luke to take pictures of her in the coffin?
(a) She is playing a joke on her husband.
(b) She wants to frighten Ruby Blankenship.
(c) She wants to go out like a dowager queen.
(d) She wants to see what she looks like in it.

5. What is the name of Tom's wife?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Lila.
(c) Sallie.
(d) Rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Winthrop Ogletree?

2. Why might Conroy have included the scene with Tolitha's coffin in Chapter Eight?

3. What does Tom's wife blurt out to elicit an emotional response from Tom as they walk along the beach in Chapter One?

4. What does Tom see as the character flaw in Tolitha?

5. Why does Amos bring everyone to the hayloft barn?

(see the answer key)

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