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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has gone down so low in price that the Luke's father and mother worry about how they will get by?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Grain.
(c) Corn.
(d) Apples.

2. What does Luke's mother say is the reason she became pregnant with him?
(a) They planned to get pregnant.
(b) It was an accident but they wanted him very much.
(c) They were forced to get pregnant.
(d) It was an accident and they were very upset about it.

3. What does Dad say is the reason for the tax increase on their property?
(a) The government is in financial trouble.
(b) They have been suspected to be harboring a third child.
(c) He wouldn't sell anymore of their farmland, so he is being punished.
(d) The new houses next door have raised the property value of their home.

4. What does Luke beg his mother to convince his dad of in Chapter 9?
(a) Allowing Luke back in the kitchen.
(b) Allowing Luke to look out the windows.
(c) Allowing Luke to listen to the radio.
(d) Allowing Luke outside.

5. What does Luke imagine in Chapter 7, which he feels guilty about?
(a) Running away.
(b) Moving in with a family with only one child and living a normal life.
(c) Wanting one of his brothers to die so he can take their place.
(d) Wishing he'd never been born.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Luke's mother make him sit and eat his breakfast on the bottom step to the attic?

2. In Chapter 5, what does the letter from the Government tell Luke's father to get rid of?

3. Who did Luke's Mother hide her pregnancy from?

4. After Matthew asks how the family can possibly pay the property taxes, what does Mother announce she has just received?

5. What do Dad, Matthew, and Mark load up for slaughter at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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