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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer Afternoon, Summer Afternoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Dirk going to college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Xavier.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Stanford.

2. Grandpa had his theories of creationism tested by Alfred Russel Wallace, ____________ partner.
(a) Darwin's.
(b) Einstein's.
(c) Whitman's.
(d) Poe's.

3. Miss Janice had been _________________ in Grandpa and Grandmother Nye's home.
(a) The cook.
(b) The housekeeper.
(c) The secretary.
(d) The nanny.

4. How far back does Vanessa share her family lineage?
(a) Great-great-grandfather.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Great grandfather.
(d) Great-great-great-grandfather.

5. Grandpa Nye says that the roads the family will take on vacation are the same paths traveled by _______________ in the Indian campaigns of the 1790s.
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Anthony Wayne.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Dirk visit Vanessa's family while on furlough?

2. Vanessa's great-great-grandmother thought moving to America was a _____________ idea.

3. Who were Grandpa Nye's mother's family?

4. What does Vanessa call Grandmother Nye, Nathaniel, Joab and Great Grandmother Vanessa?

5. What did Vanessa's father swallow whole as a joke?

(see the answer key)

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