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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The Garden, Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Kathleen was born, where did Materia find work as a piano player?
(a) At a nearby French restaurant.
(b) At the Empire Theatre.
(c) At the elementary school.
(d) At the Baptist church.

2. What type of town is the town where the Piper family lives?
(a) A shopping town.
(b) A mining town.
(c) A ghost town.
(d) A historic town.

3. In what year is Materia's first child born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1920.

4. Which of the following is NOT an object Frances proposed using as rosary beads when a proper rosary wasn't present?
(a) Mouse turds.
(b) Clouds in the sky.
(c) Dots on a newspaper.
(d) Freckles.

5. Which North American city is Materia desperate to move to after her marriage?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Mumma die from?

2. What religion does Materia follow?

3. What is significant about Daddy's hair in the photograph the narrator describes in the prologue?

4. What does James allow his wife to do, which he had previously forbidden, thinking it will benefit their child?

5. What is the name of the school Kathleen was enrolled in as a child?

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