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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Pages 15 through 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following men invented the stove in Philadelphia in 1753?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Alexander Cape.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. What injury did Father sustain while fighting in the war?
(a) Broken leg.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Shattered ribs.
(d) Collapsed lung.

3. What ethnicity are the Sheehys?
(a) Scottish.
(b) English.
(c) Irish.
(d) Spanish.

4. How many rivers meet at the center of Pittsburgh?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. When Annie Dillard imagines everything leaving her brain, what is the one thing she thinks will remain?
(a) Topology.
(b) The faces of her loved ones.
(c) Her own name.
(d) The state capitals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of Annie's parents' bodies is she obsessed with as a child of five?

2. Which of the following instruments signals the evening news on the Dillard family radio?

3. How does Annie's father plan to travel to the city of his dreams?

4. Why isn't Annie allowed to play with the Sheehy children?

5. How does Annie feel when her mother brings her to meet the neighborhood nuns?

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