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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucy do with the present?
(a) She throws it in the garbage.
(b) She helps Doris set it up.
(c) She throws it out the back door.
(d) She forces Benjamin to take it back.

2. How much younger than Russell is Doris?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Eighteen months.

3. What happens to Benjamin after he has been drinking?
(a) He becomes violently ill.
(b) He loses his short term memory.
(c) He sleeps for days.
(d) He always gets lost.

4. How and when did Papa die?
(a) He died in 1910 in a carriage accident at the age of 47.
(b) He died in 1917 of a heart attack at the age of 53.
(c) He died in 1918 of the flu at the age of 54.
(d) He died in 1929 after the stock market crash at the age of 65.

5. When does Russell's mother decide he should be a writer?
(a) When he was five years old and loved to read.
(b) When he was sixteen and writing for a paper.
(c) Shortly after his birth.
(d) After an A paper he wrote in the seventh grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to everyone in town, where was Annie Grigsby born?

2. What does Russell's mother think is a major character flaw of his?

3. What is Russell's job with this company?

4. How many children did Ida Rebecca have?

5. During her tenure at Arlington School in Loundoun County, what illegal operation is nearby?

(see the answer key)

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