2. Why does Charles Lindbergh's popularity plummet by 1940?
(a) He visits Germany and receives a Nazi medal
(b) He is behind his baby's disappearance
(c) He cheats on his taxes
(d) He divorces his wife

3. Miriam Rothschild is known for being a _____________.
(a) comic
(b) professor
(c) naturalist
(d) singer

4. What is Conrad Richter's first novel?
(a) The Sea of Grass
(b) The Sea Has No Secrets
(c) Seaside Serenade
(d) Seasons of Love

5. In what state does the action occur in this story?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Virginia
(c) Tennessee
(d) West Virginia

6. Where does Richter do most of his writing?
(a) The seashore
(b) The barn
(c) The library
(d) The dining room table

7. What shape are the cuts made into the mountainsides in strip mining?
(a) L-shaped
(b) V-shaped
(c) O-shaped
(d) U-shaped

8. Who is the only president to retire in Washington?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) George H. W. Bush
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

9. What makes Lindbergh renounce his profession?
(a) He gets a mental illness
(b) His wife dies
(c) He gets arthritis
(d) The devastation of Europe during the war

10. What is mined in the state in the answer to #122?
(a) Uranium
(b) Diamonds
(c) Gold
(d) Coal

11. What is the book written by the answer to #126 which is compared to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath?
(a) Bluegrass Memories
(b) My Old Kentucky Home
(c) Horses, Highways and Hollers
(d) Night Comes to the Cumberlands

12. Who is the first American to orbit the Earth?
(a) Jim Lovell
(b) Gus Grissom
(c) Buzz Aldrin
(d) John Glenn

13. The early aviators navigate by ____________________ rather than instruments.
(a) weather patterns
(b) gut instinct
(c) astrology
(d) landscape details

14. What shape is the Octagon House?
(a) Square
(b) Octagonal
(c) Hexagonal
(d) Rectangular

15. "South of Kankakee" takes place in what state?
(a) Wisconsin
(b) Indiana
(c) Minnesota
(d) Illinois