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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Fun and Freak show shut down?
(a) People stopped coming.
(b) Queenie attacked the three-legged chicken.
(c) The relatives ordered the woman to stop the show.
(d) The three-legged chicken died.

2. What does Truman describe as the "carnage of August"?
(a) The dead flies on the window.
(b) The dead flies they killed for money.
(c) The dead flies under their beds.
(d) The dead flies on the porch.

3. What place do the woman and Truman take in the national football contest that they entered?
(a) Thirty-seventh.
(b) Fifty-second.
(c) Seventy-ninth.
(d) Twenty-fifth.

4. From whom does Truman learn the true meaning of Christmas?
(a) The relatives.
(b) Queenie.
(c) Mr. Haha Jones.
(d) The woman.

5. If the woman and Truman "mess around with" her superstition, she is afraid that the cakes will do what?
(a) Fail.
(b) Be too bulky.
(c) Fall.
(d) Not cool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Queenie?

2. What does the woman read?

3. What type of fishing poles do the woman and Truman pile into the baby carriage?

4. What does the woman tame?

5. How much money does the woman think she has counted out of the purse?

(see the answer key)

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