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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The village doesn't matter except for what two things?
(a) The preacher's house and the train station.
(b) The saloon and the general store.
(c) The jailhouse and the gallows.
(d) The school and the church.

2. What do passersby want to do when they pass the house?
(a) Make a lot of noise and throw a rock or two.
(b) Run.
(c) Ask for a drink.
(d) Whisper.

3. How old is Winnie?
(a) She doesn't say.
(b) Eleven, going on twelve.
(c) Sixteen, going on seventeen.
(d) Ten, going on eleven.

4. What is it that Mae is looking at when she first wakes on the day before Jesse and Miles are to come home?
(a) A spider on the window.
(b) Cobwebs on the ceiling.
(c) Flies.
(d) Tuck.

5. Who is it that yells from the front door of the cottage that Winnie is going to get her stockings dirty?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Mae Tuck.
(d) Her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mae fasten the shawl around her shoulders?

2. What is the "one pretty thing" Mae never leaves home without?

3. What does Mae do when they pass the strange man with Winnie astride the horse?

4. What does Mae use as a fan?

5. What color are Jesse's suspenders?

(see the answer key)

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