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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whose perspective does the chapter change?
(a) Aunt Ada Doom.
(b) Judith Starkadder.
(c) Amos Starkadder.
(d) Seth Starkadder.

2. Why does Adam have to practice driving the cart six times?
(a) So the cart wheels can be trued.
(b) So he is prepared to drive it to the train station.
(c) So the cart can be re-fitted for staves.
(d) So the horses can get exercise.

3. Whose job is it to milk the cows?
(a) Judith Starkadder.
(b) Flora Starkadder.
(c) Amos Starkadder.
(d) Adam Lambsbreath.

4. What happens to Miriam?
(a) She falls off the hayloft.
(b) She cuts her arm rather badly.
(c) She marries her second cousin.
(d) She goes into labor.

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. What does Charles reiterate to Flora?

2. Where is the primary setting for this novel?

3. How would one characterize Amos Starkadder's personality?

4. What does Adam call Flora several times?

5. Of what does Amos accuse Flora?

(see the answer key)

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