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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Flora want to do?
(a) Go to Hollywood and try to get in the silent films.
(b) Give relatives her monthly stipend in exchange for room and board.
(c) Get a job as a nanny overseas.
(d) Join a convent.

2. What is Adam doing when Flora comes downstairs?
(a) Playing a harmonica.
(b) Snoring.
(c) Cutting turnips and watching the livestock through an open door.
(d) Whittling.

3. About what are they arguing?
(a) Breakfast being late.
(b) The cow losing a leg.
(c) The horse being lame.
(d) Breakfast being burned.

4. Who are Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless?
(a) The farm's three bulls.
(b) The farm's cows.
(c) Three dogs.
(d) The best egg-laying chickens on the farm.

5. What literary device occurs at the opening to this chapter?
(a) An alliterative string.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) The narrative shifts point of view.
(d) A simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Viper?

2. Why won't Judith take Flora's money?

3. What does Flora throw out of the cart when she climbs onto the cart?

4. Who admits giving his daughter chicken feathers?

5. Which reply most intrigues Flora?

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