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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did William Marshall Howland die?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Killed in the Civil War.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Murdered by five Indians.

2. How old is William when he thinks that he is old?
(a) 48.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 50.

3. Where have the oldest children left to go to school at in the first chapter?
(a) Jackson.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Mobile.

4. Who has fallen into a weaving of invisible threads at the beginning of the book?
(a) William.
(b) Robert.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Abigail.

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

6. What did William give his daughter as a homecoming surprise after her first year of college?
(a) A horse.
(b) A book of poetry.
(c) A gazebo.
(d) A trip to Europe.

7. What is the eye color of the last William Howland's eyes?
(a) Gray.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

8. 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.

9. When Abigail is being honest with herself, she find herself wishing that ______________was not alive.
(a) Margaret.
(b) Howland.
(c) Robert.
(d) John, her husband.

10. Whose shrieking does Abigail miss in the first Book of Abigail?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her ex-husband.
(c) Two whipporwills.
(d) The townspeople.

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

12. Who says, "Wind's to the west"?
(a) Annie.
(b) Oliver.
(c) Abigail.
(d) William.

13. What is flying around the porch in the first chapter?
(a) Flies.
(b) Moths.
(c) Gnats.
(d) Birds.

14. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail believe she sees over the river?
(a) A huge fish.
(b) A person.
(c) An owl.
(d) A thick mist.

15. Why are there no pictures of Lorena Adams Howland?
(a) William burned them one afternoon.
(b) They were lost over the years.
(c) Lorena refused to allow her picture to be taken.
(d) They burned in a house fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had William hunted as a boy for a quarter for each skin?

2. In what direction has the sun set at the beginning of "The Keepers of the House"?

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

4. What is quiet and still and dry in the first chapter?

5. What did William bring to eat for his trip into the swamp?

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