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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III, Chapters 27-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name is given to the boys who torment Dencey on the street?
(a) Rabble Rousers.
(b) Freedmen.
(c) Fragmenters.
(d) Hellians.

2. What story does Elias tell Dencey that frightens her for the first time?
(a) When Indians attacked his house when he was a boy.
(b) When he fell overboard a whaling ship.
(c) The horrors of hell for those who disobey God.
(d) Being snowed in for weeks during a blizzard as a boy.

3. Who is the ten-year-old girl taken in by Lydia and Tom?
(a) Patricia Ramsey.
(b) Ellen Mortimer.
(c) Sara Weston.
(d) Peggy Runnel.

4. What is Sammie doing when Dencey arrives at the cottage where he lives?
(a) Building a fire.
(b) Rubbing down a horse.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Feeding chickens.

5. Who is Hopestill?
(a) Dencey's grandmother.
(b) Dencey's mother.
(c) Dencey's teacher.
(d) Dencey's friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fills Dencey's basket with food before she goes to visit Sammie?

2. What are the boys playing as the book opens?

3. Who is Caleb Severance?

4. What was the cause of the death of the person on the ship?

5. Into what school does Lydia say she will try to get Sammie admitted?

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