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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the upper-management community greet Eliot and Sylvia when they move in the old family mansion?
(a) They encourage them to move to Avondale.
(b) They shun them.
(c) They visit, offer invitations, and call.
(d) They try to run them out of town.

2. What is in the back of Eliot's ledger?
(a) An unfinished novel.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Love poems.
(d) An address book.

3. What runs through the Parthenon in the middle of the town of Rosewater?
(a) The New York Central, Monon, and Nickel Plate Railroads, and the canal.
(b) The canal and the stream outside of the mansion.
(c) The canal and the bus terminal.
(d) The canal and The Illinois Central Railway lines.

4. What is a fly hunt?
(a) KIlling flies with rubber bands or glasses.
(b) Killing flies with spray cans.
(c) Finding flies in winter.
(d) Catching flies with nets.

5. Upon getting home, why does Fred give up his first thought of suicide?
(a) He thinks about the scandal.
(b) He thinks about his father.
(c) He thinks about his wife getting the insurance money.
(d) He thinks about his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Fred continues to read about the Rosewater family in the family history?

2. What is the name of Eliot's ledger?

3. What does Fred learn about himself and his family while reading the Rosewater Family History?

4. As Fred is preparing to hang himself in the basement, who arrives to speak with him?

5. What does Fred tell Caroline after learning about the Rosewater family?

(see the answer key)

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