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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: "Kinship Systems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month does the novel begin?
(a) November.
(b) January.
(c) December.
(d) October.

2. How long ago did the Cooks move to Featherton?
(a) 20 years ago.
(b) 9 years ago.
(c) 5 years ago.
(d) 2 years ago.

3. What are the names of Crystal's children?
(a) Mark and Roger.
(b) Jack and George.
(c) Roger and Steve.
(d) Jazon and Mical.

4. What is the name of Ovid's wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Juliet.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Regina.

5. Who among Dovey's brothers is referred to as the ambitious one?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Felix.
(c) James.
(d) Pete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crop of the Cooks' had "melted to liquid stench," in the past season, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

2. To what flowers are Dellarobia's children compared in a simile in Chapter 1?

3. What does Hester call the butterflies?

4. On what day of the week does Ovid arrive in Feathertown?

5. What did Pete take with him when he departed?

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