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

2. What is the last thing that the woman and Truman buy that delivers them broke?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Flour.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Citron.

3. What does Truman use ten cents for every Saturday?
(a) To buy bubble gum and candy.
(b) To go to the picture show.
(c) To buy food for dinner.
(d) To go to tap dancing lessons.

4. Where are the holly wreaths hung?
(a) The front windows.
(b) Above the tree.
(c) All the windows..
(d) The doors.

5. What does Truman use to make the winged angels for the tree?
(a) Tin foil given to them by the knife grinder.
(b) Tin foil scraps found on the ground.
(c) Tin foil pieces leftover from cooking.
(d) Hershey bar tin foil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Queenie try to eat off the tree?

2. What does Truman describe as the "carnage of August"?

3. How many miles is the most that the woman has ever traveled from her home?

4. Where do Truman and the woman count their earned money?

5. In Section 1, how old is Truman?

(see the answer key)

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