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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The woman knows an old time Indian cure that is supposed to remove what?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Hair.
(c) Spirits.
(d) Warts.

3. How many rattles does the rattlesnake have that the woman kills?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Ten.

4. What type of coin does Truman call the liveliest?
(a) Quarters.
(b) Dimes.
(c) Nickels.
(d) Pennies.

5. The woman states that "we can't mess around with" what?
(a) Queenie.
(b) The relatives.
(c) The fruitcakes.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman tame?

2. What is Truman stuffing in Section 1?

3. What covers the woman's bed?

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

5. What do Truman and the woman call their Christmas savings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two adjectives would describe the woman? Give reasons for both.

2. How do the woman and Truman decorate their Christmas tree?

3. How does the woman stay the same after Truman leaves for military school?

4. What does the mill owner's wife do and how does the woman react?

5. How does Truman's absence affect the woman?

6. Truman thinks of all the things he would like to buy for the woman for Christmas while he is making her gift. What types of things would Truman like to buy for the woman and what does he make for her?

7. Truman mentions the items the woman and himself have to buy to make their fruitcakes. Name the items that the woman and Truman must buy to complete their fruitcakes.

8. What things does Truman draw to make into ornaments for the tree?

9. What does the term "fruitcake weather" refer to?

10. The money for the fruitcake fund is hidden in what way?

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