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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what is the other group that Fulghum mentions, besides merchants, that he counts on?
(a) Kindergarten teachers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Doctors.

2. While the soldiers and priests in San Saba waited for the Indians to show up, how did they bide their time?
(a) They wrote journals.
(b) They practiced their shooting.
(c) They swam in the river and ran races.
(d) They made up stories and songs.

3. When Fulghum speaks of the gummy lump, he states that there are three colors of construction paper that are used: pink, red, and what?
(a) White.
(b) Orange.
(c) Purple.
(d) Yellow.

4. When do the woodsmen in the Solomon Islands creep up on a tree?
(a) Midnight.
(b) At noon.
(c) At dawn.
(d) At sunset.

5. In the chapter about the neighbor woman and the spider, Fulghum states that spiders have been around for how many years?
(a) 350 million years.
(b) 400 thousand years.
(c) 200 million years.
(d) 500 thousand years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Fulghum's washer and dryer quit working, where is the laundromat that he has to go to?

3. Fulghum describes the bus of his lawyer friend as decorated like the set for what?

4. What does Fulghum claim his next-door neighbor yelled at for most of an afternoon?

5. In Chapter 10, Fulghum talks about a certain animal that mates underneath the porch of his lakeside cottage. What kind of animal is he talking about?

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