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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Em demonstrate to Ish that children are necessary?
(a) She shows him old pictures of her family.
(b) She lights a match and blows it out.
(c) She digs the roots out of a rose bush.
(d) She shows him how hard it is to work the garden alone.

2. What does Em say Ish can do to help her with childbirth?
(a) Read books about it.
(b) Provide hot water and clean sheets.
(c) Stay away.
(d) Find medicine.

3. While exploring the city, Ish finds a body hanging from a telephone pole. What does the sign say that is attached to the body?
(a) Murderer.
(b) Looter.
(c) Beware of plague.
(d) Stay away.

4. What does Ish find when he arrives home after his trip to the east coast?
(a) His door is broken.
(b) Someone has been in his home.
(c) His note is untouched.
(d) His parents left him a note.

5. While Ish is traveling to the east coast, he kills an animal, eating its liver afterward. What kind of animal does Ish kill?
(a) Goat.
(b) Llama.
(c) Dog.
(d) Calf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event occurs during the Year of Woodcarving that has a very
 negative effect on Ish?

2. What does Ish notice is peculiar about one of the towns he visits on his drive home from Black Creek?

3. After Ish returns to the drunkard that he met in the city, the man ends up dying. What does Ish do with him ?

4. During the Quick Years, one of Ish and Em's earliest children dies. What do the adults think is the cause?

5. When Ish decides to take a cross-country trip, what is the reason he decides to go?

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