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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what thoughts is Adam consumed?
(a) Of Judith Starkadder.
(b) Of failing to control the cart.
(c) Thoughts of Elfine.
(d) Of getting lost on his way to the train station.

3. What does Flora write Mary to send?
(a) Her shotgun.
(b) Lots of books.
(c) Gumshoes.
(d) A few bolts of material.

4. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?
(a) Go to the talkies.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Meet a girl behind the haystack.
(d) Smoke his pipe on the porch.

5. How does Adam describe Elfine?
(a) As seventeen and wild, often gone for days at a time to wander the hills.
(b) As bullheaded.
(c) As a will-o-the-wisp.
(d) As practical and the mainstay of the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Flora decide to answer Seth?

2. Who is Adam supposed to meet at the train station?

3. At first, what request from Flora does Miriam refuse?

4. Why does Flora take an indirect train route to Howling?

5. With whom is Flora going to stay temporarily?

(see the answer key)

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