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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 63-71 (pg 196-226).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the Countess born?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Arkansas.

2. Robbins writes in Chapter 38, "If little else, the brain is an ____ toy."
(a) Erratic.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Irresponsible.
(d) Educational.

3. Robbins writes in Chapter 34 that a sentence of lead "gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of" what?
(a) Magnesium.
(b) Lava.
(c) Ink.
(d) Platinum.

4. What does Robbins describe as the protagonist's "way of life" and calling?
(a) Hitchhiking.
(b) Sheep rustling.
(c) Modeling.
(d) Dancing.

5. What do the Clock People not believe in?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Love.
(c) Volcanos.
(d) The White Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gloria makes a comparison between Sissy's thumbs and what in Chapter 46?

2. Where did the Countess first spot Sissy Hankshaw?

3. Where did Sissy's aunt come to visit from, when Sissy was a girl, in Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 45, Robbins writes that the cow milk molecule is how many times larger than the molecule of mother's milk?

5. For what plant does Bill work as a chemist in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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