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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a climactic reversal of fortune?
(a) Old John's preliminary agreement to sell the place
(b) Mother's manipulating Gertie into going into the city
(c) Gertie wondering where Clovis is and when she will be able to buy the Tipton Place
(d) Cassie's difficulty learning to read

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

3. Why are the children quarrelsome at the end of chapter five?
(a) They are bored
(b) They are excited
(c) They are tired
(d) They are afraid

4. Which word best describes how Gertie feels about affection attempts from her husband?
(a) Uncomfortable
(b) Relieved
(c) Excited
(d) Disgusted

5. Who is Callie Lou?
(a) Clovis's mother
(b) Invisible friend
(c) Daughter to Gertie
(d) Gertie's sister

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms best describes how the other children treated the one child who had difficulty reading?

2. Over what did Gertie and Clovis argue?

3. Which of the children has difficulty reading?

4. How does Gertie travel at the beginning of chapter one?

5. Which of the children has a similar dream to Gertie's of living on a farm?

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