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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Russell's earliest memory?
(a) Eleven's bulging biceps.
(b) The yellow house across from his grandmother's house.
(c) His mother rocking him to sleep.
(d) A cow poking its head into his crib.

2. What is Russell's job with this company?
(a) He is a paperboy.
(b) He is a correspondent.
(c) He is a spy.
(d) He is an office assistant.

3. What happens to Russell's mother at the age of eighty?
(a) She has her last bad fall.
(b) She moves from New Jersey to California.
(c) She gets her thirtieth grandchild.
(d) She becomes a millionaire.

4. According to Uncle Irvey, "A man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is ____?" (p. 55)
(a) Always fun.
(b) A ton.
(c) Never done.
(d) Hard to run.

5. To what ailment does Russell's mother succumb?
(a) Hopeless senility, or hardening of the arteries.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Cancer of the lungs and blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What small present has Benjamin bought for Doris?

2. During a high school debate in 1913, what does Lucy argue in favor of?

3. What ancient medicine did the people of Morristown believe in?

4. What does Lucy do with the present?

5. How many children did Ida Rebecca have?

(see the answer key)

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