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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name does Mattie recall on the letters upstairs under her mattress in the opening of the novel?
(a) Tommy Hubbard's.
(b) Michael Gokley’s.
(c) Chester Gillette’s.
(d) Frank Loomis's.

2. Pa tells Mattie in Chapter 12 that if she leaves the family to go to college, then he will do what?
(a) o longer welcome her into his home.
(b) See that she has the money to start her career.
(c) Give her the inheritance left by his aunt.
(d) See that she obtains a good dowry.

3. Who wrote The House of Mirth?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Emily Bronte.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

4. On what date did the historical figure of Grace Brown die?
(a) September 3, 1905.
(b) July 16, 1906.
(c) July 11, 1906.
(d) June 12, 1906.

5. What’s the name of the boat that is dragging the lake in the beginning of the novel?
(a) The U.S.S. Constitution.
(b) The Machida.
(c) The Santa Maria.
(d) The Zilpha.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Barnard College founded?

2. Who does the narrator describe as sitting on “the porch until the end of time, rapping her cane on the railing for more lemonade” in the beginning of the novel?

3. What kind of boat serves as the floating grocery store and lending library in the novel?

4. Who does Pa blame for Mattie’s ambition to attend college?

5. Reading Grace Brown’s letters, Mattie realizes that who is really named Chester Gillette?

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