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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gertie leave many trees alone when she goes out for wood to make axe handles?
(a) To let them grow straight
(b) To protect the property
(c) To provide shade
(d) To use later to build a barn

2. Why does Clytie say that Clovis is angry and throws the pan out into the snow?
(a) Ruining her life
(b) Abusing Gertie
(c) Venting his frustrations over his shift change
(d) Drinking

3. What besides a letter has Clovis sent to Gertie?
(a) His shaving strop
(b) 60 dollars
(c) Directions to come live with him
(d) Keys to a new car

4. What happens to Gertie's dream of living in Tipton Place by the end of chapter nine?
(a) Realized and destroyed
(b) Destroyed only
(c) Unchanged
(d) Realized only

5. Which of the following characters is now a prisoner of war?
(a) Jesse
(b) Clovis's father
(c) Clovis
(d) Henley

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reassures Gertie that Clovis is okay?

2. Which of the following literary elements is not found in chapters six through nine?

3. What does Mrs. Daly tell Gertie that she thinks Clovis is doing when he is angry and throws the pan out into the snow?

4. According to what Max tells Gertie, who controls Max's life and tells her how to live?

5. At the beginning of chapter nine, what is Gertie doing as she reflects on how long it has been since Henley left and then was killed?

(see the answer key)

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