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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Michael Campbell?
(a) The Madison City postmaster.
(b) William's cousin who is a doctor.
(c) William's brother-in-law.
(d) William's cousin who is a lawyer.

2. What does Abigail see when she looks east and north in the first Book of Abigail?
(a) Snow-covered peaks.
(b) Sharp and clear trees on the ridges.
(c) Mist.
(d) Bare fields.

3. Why doesn't Abigail want to replace the fence?
(a) It is more practical to keep it.
(b) She has no one to do the work.
(c) She wants to remember.
(d) She has no money.

4. What is like "stain on a sponge"?
(a) The light on the porch.
(b) Water spilled onto the porch.
(c) Dryness of the skin.
(d) The creeping night.

5. Whom does Abigail envision as saying, "just like a Howland"?
(a) Margaret's children.
(b) The county.
(c) The servants.
(d) Her ex-husband's family.

6. In Abigail's imagination, who stands next to her on the porch in the first Book of Abigail?
(a) William.
(b) Robert.
(c) Margaret.
(d) John.

7. What is trainasse?
(a) Cajun name for swamp water.
(b) Creole name for narrow tunnels in a marsh.
(c) An animal found in the swamp.
(d) Cajun name for the marsh.

8. When William tells his granddaughter, "I used to think she'd glow in the night," to whom is he referring?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Lorena.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter, Abigail.

9. In the first chapter, who built the porch that Abigail stands on?
(a) Her great-great-great-great-grandfather.
(b) Her great-great-great grandfather.
(c) Her great-great grandfather.
(d) Her great-grandfather.

10. What poetry does the elder Abigail enjoy reading out loud before she leaves for college?
(a) Poe.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Dickinson.
(d) Shelley.

11. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail water?
(a) Geraniums.
(b) Roses.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Pansies.

12. Where does William's daughter go to college?
(a) H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in Louisiana.
(b) Agnes Scott College in Georgia.
(c) University of Montevallo in Alabama.
(d) Mary Baldwin in Virginia.

13. What is squirming "helplessly on the boards" of the porch?
(a) A bird with a broken wing.
(b) Beetles.
(c) Abigail.
(d) A mouse.

14. What had William hunted as a boy for a quarter for each skin?
(a) Coons.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Fox.

15. What did William bring to eat for his trip into the swamp?
(a) Bacon, bread, and pears.
(b) Bacon, cornbread, and apples.
(c) Beef jerky, corn muffins, and persimmons.
(d) Ham, biscuits, and berries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are there no pictures of Lorena Adams Howland?

2. When Abigail was a child, who slept in the great tester bed in the south bedroom?

3. What do people call "the bones of the earth," according to the author?

4. Who says, "Wind's to the west"?

5. What mammal does William see at the large freshwater lake in the middle of the swamp?

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