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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Marge?
(a) William's wife.
(b) Abigail's youngest child.
(c) William's middle child.
(d) Abigail's oldest child.
2. In the first chapter, who built the porch that Abigail stands on?
(a) Her great-great-great grandfather.
(b) Her great-great grandfather.
(c) Her great-grandfather.
(d) Her great-great-great-great-grandfather.
3. Whom does Abigail envision as saying, "just like a Howland"?
(a) The county.
(b) Her ex-husband's family.
(c) The servants.
(d) Margaret's children.
4. Who is surrounded by "tiers of flesh"?
(a) Howland Campbell.
(b) Annie Howland Campbell.
(c) Gregory Mason.
(d) William Howland.
5. In the first Book of Abigail, who avoids the porch light?
(a) Moths.
(b) A screech owl.
(c) The cat.
(d) Abigail.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Abigail is being honest with herself, she find herself wishing that ______________was not alive.
2. From what state did William Marshall Howland originally come?
3. How does Abigail see Margaret's son carrying himself?
4. In the first Book of Abigail, what month is it?
5. What are the names of Margaret's children?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the term Freejack.
2. In addition to the month being stated, what other clues about the season is the reader given in the first paragraph?
3. Describe the still that William eventually finds.
4. Describe the land that William Marshall Howland claims.
5. How is the content of "The Keepers of the House" organized?
6. What does the narrator say in the first section that indicates that she might be lonely?
7. What memories does Abigail think of after she thinks the owl flies over the river?
8. What is Abigail's reasoning for watering the geraniums so late in the season?
9. What caused the "ugly smears" in the sky in October in the first section?
10. Describe the Howland tomb and its eventual use.
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