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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of voice does the woman use at best to talk to Mr. Haha Jones?
(a) Loud.
(b) Whispery.
(c) Subdued.
(d) Scratchy.

2. While Truman and the woman are searching for the Christmas tree, they come across frogs the size of what?
(a) Fifty-cent pieces.
(b) Their hands.
(c) Saucers.
(d) Plates.

3. What does Truman's flannel nightgown smell like?
(a) Cough syrup.
(b) Must and dust.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Fruitcake.

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

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

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

7. Where are the Baptist missionaries?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Columbia.
(c) France.
(d) Borneo.

8. How many days does it take to make the fruitcakes?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

10. Mr. Haha Jones demonstrates the sparkle in the sunlight of what?
(a) The whiskey.
(b) His dream catcher.
(c) The Christmas lights.
(d) Teardrops from laughing.

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

12. In Section 2, what illegal thing does the woman do?
(a) She steals a Christmas tree.
(b) She takes whiskey without paying.
(c) She takes cherries from a neighbor's yard.
(d) She gives Truman alcohol.

13. After the woman and Truman receive the whiskey from Mr. Haha Jones, the woman describes Mr. Jones as what type of man?
(a) Bitter.
(b) Lovely.
(c) Angry.
(d) Nice.

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

15. Why does Mr. Haha Jones pour the money back into the woman's bead purse?
(a) They gave him too much money.
(b) He wants the purse, too.
(c) He wants the woman and Truman to send him a fruitcake instead.
(d) It wasn't enough money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has "eyes that scold and tongues that scald"?

2. How many inches of whiskey are left in the whiskey bottle after the fruitcakes are finished?

3. Who asks, "Mrs. Haha, ma'am? Anyone to home"?

4. What does Queenie do when Truman knocks on Mr. Haha Jones' door?

5. Where are the Winstons from?

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