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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Story Four, Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the final spinning top battle between Farkas and the narrator conclude?
(a) Farkas wins and throws the narrator's top over the school fence into the street.
(b) The narrator wins and throws Farkas' top down the sewer.
(c) Both tops leave the circle together and disappear down the sewer.
(d) The narrator's kid brother comes from nowhere and steals both tops.

2. Who is spying on the narrator when he starts to spin tops against opponents?
(a) Delbert Bumpus.
(b) Grover Dill.
(c) Junior Kissel.
(d) Scut Farkas.

3. How does the narrator's childhood experience at the County Fair compare to a movie he watches when he's an adult that portrays a State Fair set in Indiana?
(a) His experience is identical to the movie.
(b) The food's exactly the same, but he remembers wilder rides.
(c) The County Fair wasn't as exciting as the State Fair in the movie.
(d) His experience is completely different from the movie.

4. What is the little wooden house with the moon on the door found in the Bumpus' yard?
(a) Guest room.
(b) Dog house.
(c) Moonshine making station.
(d) Gun storage shed.

5. What is the Mariah?
(a) Softball.
(b) Top.
(c) Yo-yo.
(d) Skateboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once the Shepherds get to the County Fair, Randy accompanies his mother to see what?

2. What do the Old Man and Mother do well into the night in preparation for their Michigan trip?

3. On the morning of the family's departure for their Michigan trip, Mother is in the kitchen scrambling eggs and making coffee while the Old Man is doing what?

4. Because of the crowds, how far away from the County Fair does the narrator say his father has to park?

5. What marks the start of the Shepherd-Bumpus feud?

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