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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes everyone stop talking and wait?
(a) Gertie digging for potatoes
(b) Clovis returning
(c) Old John offering to sell Tipton place to Gertie
(d) The sound of a unique car approaching

2. Who reassures Gertie that Clovis is okay?
(a) The post office clerk
(b) Clovis' mother
(c) The grocery store clerk
(d) Cassie

3. What happened to all of Gertie's savings?
(a) Paid for funeral, casket and headstone
(b) Clovis put it in the bank to keep saving money
(c) Paid for funeral and casket
(d) Paid for hospital bills, funeral and casket

4. What does Mrs. Daly tell Gertie that she thinks Clovis is doing when he is angry and throws the pan out into the snow?
(a) Ruining her life
(b) Drinking
(c) Abusing Gertie
(d) Venting his frustrations over his shift change

5. Why is Max called unAmerican by one of the neighbors?
(a) For not celebrating Christmas
(b) For not spending enough money on presents
(c) For not sharing with her neighbors
(d) For not wanting a new, big refrigerator

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. On what does Clovis compliment Gertie?

4. When Gertie quotes from the Bible about drinking, which is the main message?

5. Which of her children does Gertie cling to after the loss of Cassie?

(see the answer key)

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