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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grates against the window?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A bird.
(c) Queenie.
(d) A fig branch.

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

3. What makes Mr. Haha Jones laugh?
(a) When Queenie barks at him.
(b) When Truman and the woman ask for Mr. Jones.
(c) When Truman and the woman can't speak.
(d) When the woman asks for whiskey.

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

5. How many relatives walk in on the celebration of sending out all the fruitcakes?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

6. What brings "screwed-up expressions and sour shudders"?
(a) Drinking straight whiskey.
(b) The cold wind through the windows.
(c) Staying up too late.
(d) Dancing and drinking at the same time.

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

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

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

10. Where is Queenie not allowed?
(a) In the relative's room.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) On the woman's bed.
(d) Under Truman's bed.

11. Who gets a fruitcake for waving as they pass by?
(a) The newspaper boy.
(b) Mr. Haha Jones.
(c) The milk man.
(d) The truck driver.

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

13. What kind of establishment does Mr. Haha Jones own?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A butcher store.
(c) A fish-fry and dancing cafe.
(d) A flower shop.

14. Who celebrates sending off all the fruitcakes?
(a) Truman and the woman.
(b) Truman, the woman, and Queenie.
(c) Truman and Queenie.
(d) The woman and Queenie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Haha Jones consider to be a waste of whiskey?

2. Where are the Baptist missionaries?

3. Who says the woman is "shy around everyone but strangers"?

4. What does the woman say she'll add an extra cup of when she makes Mr. Haha Jones' fruitcake?

5. Who is Abner Packer?

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