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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the main character in the story?
(a) The relatives.
(b) The butcher.
(c) Mr. Haha Jones.
(d) Truman.

2. What spins in the kitchen while Truman and the woman make fruitcake?
(a) Tops.
(b) Bowls.
(c) Spoons.
(d) Queenie.

3. Who do Truman and the woman send fruitcakes to every year?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) Mr. Haha Jones' wife.
(c) The local Baptist minister.
(d) All their neighbors.

4. How does the woman celebrate sending all the fruitcakes?
(a) By reading a passage in the Bible.
(b) By keeping a fruitcake for herself.
(c) By going to church.
(d) By drinking leftover whiskey.

5. What color is Queenie?
(a) White and black.
(b) White and orange.
(c) Black and gray.
(d) Gray and orange.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mr. Haha Jones pour the money back into the woman's bead purse?

3. What is the black stove stoked with?

4. Where is the view that has what Truman describes as "a sky that stops"?

5. What does Truman's flannel nightgown smell like?

(see the answer key)

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