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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jeff ask the Professor when his letters to his mother and Gambo go unanswered?
(a) If the Professor mailed the letters
(b) If letters get lost
(c) If the address is right
(d) If his mother loves him

2. When Melody comes to pick Jeff up, he is overwhelmed by her _____________, warmth and cheerfulness.
(a) Darkness
(b) White hair
(c) Beauty
(d) Vanilla perfume

3. Who writes Jeff a note saying that they would be happy to see him come back for the summer?
(a) Aunt Booty
(b) Gambo
(c) Aunt Georgina
(d) Melody

4. Melody says that she left the Professor because she was unhappy and tired of _______________.
(a) Pinching pennies
(b) Cooking
(c) Being a wife
(d) Being tied down

5. Jeff finally decides that ________ someone means loving them even if they don't do what you want.
(a) Loving
(b) Living with
(c) Admiring
(d) Be related to

Short Answer Questions

1. Melody takes Jeff into the city to show him how green and polluted the ______________ is.

2. ____________ used to tell Jeff that the Professor wasn't much of a father, which makes Jeff upset.

3. In what grade is Jeff when he finds out his mother has left him and his father, the Professor?

4. Professor notes that Tolstoy once said that every unhappy family is ____________ in its own way.

5. Where does Melody say she will be for the morning, though she would like to have lunch with him later?

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