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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skills does Mrs. Dempster lack because she grew up with servants?
(a) Housekeeping and culinary skills.
(b) Housekeeping and book-keeping skills.
(c) Culinary and child-raising skills.
(d) Child-raising and book-keeping skills.

2. Dunny's parents were killed by what?
(a) The flu epidemic of 1918.
(b) The flu epidemic of 1920.
(c) The flu epidemic of 1919.
(d) The flu epidemic of 1917.

3. What did Paul Dempster do when he was 10 years old?
(a) Run away with gypsies.
(b) Run away with a magician.
(c) Run away to his aunt.
(d) Run away with the circus.

4. What were Percy and the narrator doing in the snow at the beginning of the story?
(a) Sledding.
(b) Making snowmen.
(c) Making forts.
(d) Skiing.

5. When Leola is found in the bathtub, who is her note addressed to?
(a) Dunstan.
(b) Boy.
(c) Her children.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Dunny read often to Paul in order to have Paul watch him perform tricks?

2. In the Fall of 1919, what school does Dunstan enter?

3. What does Liesl tell Dunstan his obsession with Mary Dempster is about?

4. How does Orpheus Wettenhall die?

5. Boy Staunton left on a walk during the Christmas season of 1936. When was he found?

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