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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is exhausted and sad after sending off the last fruitcake?
(a) Truman.
(b) Queenie.
(c) The relatives.
(d) The woman.

2. What do Truman and the woman give each other for Christmas during the story?
(a) Kites.
(b) Paper ornaments.
(c) They can't afford to give each other gifts for Christmas.
(d) Fruitcake.

3. What do the woman and Truman use to break the meat of the nuts into?
(a) A glass bowl.
(b) Queenie's bed.
(c) The baby carriage.
(d) A basket.

4. What do both Truman and the woman believe in?
(a) The relatives.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Indian spirits.
(d) Nothing.

5. How much money does the woman think she has counted out of the purse?
(a) $13.01.
(b) $13.00.
(c) $13.99.
(d) $12.73.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the woman and Truman use to collect nuts for making fruitcake?

2. The woman is afraid that they will put someone where if they "mess around with" her superstition?

3. What do Truman and the woman call their Christmas savings?

4. What color is the shawl that the woman receives?

5. How many years later is it when Truman is walking the streets of his college campus and remembering kites flying in the wind?

(see the answer key)

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