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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. From what ailment does Russell's father suffer?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Allergies.
(c) Gout.
(d) Arthritis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Benjamin after he has been drinking?

2. When Russell was a young boy, what famous President's time could many of the old men remember (from first-hand accounts)?

3. What does Lucy do with the present?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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