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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do men Fred insures believe is their only get-rich scheme?
(a) To insure their wives and hope they die first.
(b) To insure their homes and set them on fire.
(c) To insure themselves and die young.
(d) To insure their businesses then go bankrupt.

3. What happens when the Rosewater Inter-State Ship Canal fails?
(a) Investors lost their farms and Noah Rosewater bought them.
(b) The townspeople rioted and burned down the Rosewater mansion.
(c) The Rosewater family pulled out of town.
(d) People tried to sue the Rosewater Foundation.

4. How is Fred Rosewater related to Eliot?
(a) They are half brothers.
(b) They are brothers separated at birth.
(c) They are first cousins.
(d) They are second cousins.

5. Who put in the canal bisecting the county of Rosewater?
(a) Eliot's grandfather when he took over the Foundation.
(b) Eliot's father when he became a senator.
(c) Eliot's uncle who was a farmer.
(d) Eliot's great-grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fred's father write and leave to him before dying?

2. What does Eliot tell Sylvia he will buy for their meeting?

3. What is the original plan for the canal?

4. Where does Fred Rosewater have coffee and Danish each morning?

5. When Sylvia and Eliot move to Rosewater, what is to the west of the Parthenon?

(see the answer key)

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