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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Russell's mother insist he would do?
(a) Marry an heiress.
(b) Get a job as a salesman.
(c) Make something of himself.
(d) Live in New York City.

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

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

4. How many children did Ida Rebecca have?
(a) Ten, five boys and five girls.
(b) Five, three girls and two boys.
(c) Thirteen, twelve boys and one girl.
(d) Fifteen, ten boys and five girls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were Lucy and Benjamin in a hurry to get married?

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

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

4. What is Russell's first Christmas gift?

5. What does Lucy do with the present?

(see the answer key)

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