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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Pages 156 through 177.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Annie's father plan to travel to the city of his dreams?
(a) By boat.
(b) On foot.
(c) By plane.
(d) By car.

2. Which of the following instruments signals the evening news on the Dillard family radio?
(a) Xylophone.
(b) Harp.
(c) Accordian.
(d) Harmonica.

3. In Mother's favorite joke, the one that takes two days to tell, what does the little black poodle bring back to the train car?
(a) The brick.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) The cigar.
(d) The lady's hat.

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

5. Which of the following characters is described as "filled with various quaint sayings, stories, lyrics from songs"?
(a) Mother.
(b) Annie.
(c) Amy.
(d) Jo Anne Sheehy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rivers meet at the center of Pittsburgh?

2. What does Annie start bringing to the park to give to homeless people living there?

3. Which of the following animals does Annie imagine running the full-length of Pittsburgh?

4. What is the Lambert family, of Somerset township, famous for?

5. Which of the following characters has a little black notebook used for recording great jokes?

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