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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What equipment is used to get the Christmas tree?
(a) A hatchet, a rope, and a burlap sack.
(b) A rope and a hatchet.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) A hatchet and a burlap sack.

3. What wails at night at Mr. Haha Jones' establishment?
(a) The magpies.
(b) The Victrola.
(c) The bullfrogs.
(d) The crickets.

4. What type of house does Mr. Haha Jones live in?
(a) A large log cabin.
(b) A small log cabin.
(c) A mansion.
(d) A shack.

5. In Section 2, how many fruitcakes do Truman and the woman make?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 31.
(d) 25.

6. Who sends the woman and Truman penny post cards?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) The knife grinder.
(c) The bus driver.
(d) The missionaries.

7. How many hatchet strokes does it take to take down the tree?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

8. What time of day do the woman and Truman return from finding their tree?
(a) Mid-afternoon.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Noon.
(d) Sunset.

9. How many inches of whiskey are left in the whiskey bottle after the fruitcakes are finished?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

10. Who asks, "Mrs. Haha, ma'am? Anyone to home"?
(a) Mr. Haha Jones.
(b) Truman.
(c) The woman.
(d) The relatives.

11. Who does the woman talk about when Truman is cheering her up?
(a) Her childhood friends.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Queenie.
(d) Her father.

12. What is the most expensive ingredient for making fruitcake?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Cherries.
(d) Pecans.

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

14. How much money does Mr. Haha Jones ask the woman for in exchange for the needed ingredient?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) Fifty cents.
(d) Two dollars and fifty cents.

15. Who has "eyes that scold and tongues that scald"?
(a) Mr. Haha Jones.
(b) Abner Packer.
(c) Mrs. Haha Jones.
(d) The relatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the fruitcakes sit after they are done?

2. Where are the Winstons from?

3. What makes Mr. Haha Jones laugh?

4. What kind of establishment does Mr. Haha Jones own?

5. While Truman and the woman are searching for the Christmas tree, they come across frogs the size of what?

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