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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what year does the story flash back?
(a) 1915
(b) 1940
(c) 1922
(d) 1896

2. What happens during a fire drill at the school two years after it is constructed?
(a) Someone pulls the fire alarm as a prank and is suspended for three weeks.
(b) The brickwork collapses causing the deaths of three children and serious injury to a dozen more.
(c) The students and teachers are locked in the building.
(d) The fire drill is actually a real fire and most of the children are overcome with smoke.

3. What does Anne tell Jack about how Judge Irwin solved his money problems?
(a) He married a wealthy woman.
(b) He sold most of his property.
(c) He took out a large insurance policy on his first wife.
(d) He got a substantial bank loan.

4. Cass and his brother, Gilbert, and sister, Lavinia, were born in poverty in what state?
(a) Alabama
(b) Mississippi
(c) Georgia
(d) Tennessee

5. Where does Annabelle take Phebe to be sold?
(a) Owensboro
(b) Louisville
(c) Lexington
(d) Paducah

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jack spend a weekend with Adam and Anne?

2. What does Willie want for his son, Tom?

3. How did Cass die?

4. What is the situation regarding a brick kiln and the bricks Moore would use on the awarded job?

5. In a flashback, what does the author reveal about Jack's father?

(see the answer key)

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