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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fulghum claim is the main objective of people who go to the tavern in Chapter 35?
(a) To drink away their sorrows.
(b) To dance.
(c) To listen to the live band.
(d) To eat some grub.

2. What age does Fulghum claim he was before he knew that people even cleaned gutters and downspouts?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Forty.
(d) Thirty.

3. In Chapter 23, when Fulghum finds out that his barber has left, what does Fulghum say it feels like?
(a) An absence in his heart.
(b) A loss of a dear friend.
(c) A death in the family.
(d) A dead phone line.

4. San Saba claims a fame of being the goat capital of the world. What other thing does the town claim to be the capitol of the world of?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Pistachios.
(c) Pecans.
(d) Walnuts.

5. Fulghum states that he has heightened respect for what goes on in the nooks and crannies of our rooms and claims that it isn't dirt that is located there, it's what?
(a) Animal sheddings.
(b) Cosmic compost.
(c) Plant cells.
(d) People dust.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what occupation does Fulghum's neighbor have?

2. In Chapter 16, what is the name of the man who tested the theory that you can't trust anyone?

3. In the story of San Saba, Fulghum tells us that two thousand people from a certain tribe showed up to fight the soldiers and priests. What tribe did they come from?

4. What month of the year did the Indians that the soldiers were waiting for finally show up?

5. What did the soldiers and priests build in San Saba to accommodate them?

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