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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Fun and Freak show feature?
(a) Seascapes and a unicorn.
(b) Pictures of various cities and a three-legged chicken.
(c) Strange people and a toothless donkey.
(d) Numerous towns and a hairless dog.

2. What does the woman have courage to do?
(a) Steal flour.
(b) Kill snakes.
(c) Swat flies.
(d) Kill rodents.

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

4. Where are the nuts that are used to make the fruitcake that is found?
(a) At the store.
(b) Among leaves and grass.
(c) In baskets ready to be sold.
(d) On the trees.

5. What type of flowers does the woman's hat have on it?
(a) Lilies.
(b) Roses.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Carnations.

6. How many of these things must the woman and Truman kill to earn a penny?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

7. What does the woman dip?
(a) Snuff.
(b) Nuts.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Chocolates.

8. What do the woman and Truman win in a national football contest?
(a) Ten dollars.
(b) Three dollars.
(c) One dollar.
(d) Five dollars.

9. How many miles is the most that the woman has ever traveled from her home?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

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

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

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

13. How much does the Fun and Freak show make before it is shut down?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Fifteen dollars.

14. Why are there no birds singing before the woman gets out of bed?
(a) The woman had earplugs in her ears.
(b) It was too early.
(c) It was too cold.
(d) They had gone to warmer country.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the woman and Truman use to break the meat of the nuts into?

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

3. What is the woman's favorite color?

4. What place do the woman and Truman take in the national football contest that they entered?

5. What does the woman declare at the beginning of her favorite season?

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