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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 are the names of Tull's daughters?
(a) Kate and Eula.
(b) Sarah and Anna.
(c) Mary and Marie.
(d) Donna and Eula.

2. How much money do Darl and Jewel hope to earn by going to a job in Chapter 5?
(a) $5.
(b) $3.
(c) $50.
(d) $10.

3. Darl says in Chapter 3: "Darl," "When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set for a while in" what (9)?
(a) "An oak barrel."
(b) "A copper tin."
(c) "A cedar bucket."
(d) "A coffee pot."

4. Who is sitting with Pa on the back porch in Chapter 3: "Darl"?
(a) Cash.
(b) Samson.
(c) Darl.
(d) Tull.

5. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 8: "Tull"? "His eyes look like pieces of burnt-out cinder fixed in his face, looking out over the land" (11).
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as the only one of Addie's children that "had his mother's nature, had any natural affection" (19) in Chapter 6: "Cora"?

2. With whom does Darl return from the fields in Chapter 1: "Darl"?

3. How old does Tull say his mother lived until in Chapter 8: "Tull"?

4. What does Cora say "will break up a hen-house quicker than anything," in Chapter 2: "Cora" (5)?

5. How does Darl say that Peabody has "pussel-gutted himself" (13) in Chapter 10: "Darl"?

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