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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 44-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On August 24, where are the military units from that enter Angola in an offensive against the black nationalist guerrillas?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Spain.
(c) India.
(d) Germany.

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

3. What does Fulghum claim his next-door neighbor yelled at for most of an afternoon?
(a) A stepladder.
(b) His rain gutters.
(c) His horse.
(d) His garden hose.

4. Fulghum says that the neighbor lady thinks the spider is as big as what?
(a) A bat.
(b) A lobster.
(c) A bird.
(d) A cat.

5. According to Fulghum, where is all the software needed to run an abacus?
(a) Between your ears.
(b) Under your nose.
(c) In your fingers.
(d) In a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were the two cousins that Fulghum remembers riding home with in the back of a pickup truck?

2. What was painted on the balloon that Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier got to ride in?

3. What especially does Fulghum say we yell at besides bills and banks and traffic and umpires?

4. What kind of shoes was the man wearing who had a car with a dead battery?

5. In Chapter 27, Fulghum tells the reader that he knows what he wants for Christmas and he's known since he was forty. What is it that Fulghum wants?

(see the answer key)

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