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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term “grippe” from the novel refer to?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Influenza.

2. Mattie has heard that the works of Emily Baxter are what before she reads them?
(a) Indecent.
(b) Historically accurate.
(c) Critically acclaimed.
(d) Well written.

3. Where does Mattie dream of going to college in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Barnard College.
(b) Sarah Lawrence College.
(c) St. Mary's College.
(d) Douglass College.

4. Mattie’s Aunt Josie is married to what kind of businessman?
(a) A cattle rancher.
(b) A dairy farm owner.
(c) A coal mine owner.
(d) A sawmill owner.

5. Less than how many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Weaver confronts Mattie in Chapter 30 of her need to face the truth regarding what?

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

3. The letter that Aunt Josie intercepts from the postmistress in Chapter 14 is intended for whom?

4. Where does Henry leave some jars of milk, causing them to explode, in the narrative?

5. What is the name of Emmie Hubbard’s eldest son?

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