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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Lucy and Benjamin in a hurry to get married?
(a) They could not wait to live together.
(b) They had to do it secretly.
(c) Lucy had become pregnant.
(d) Benjamin was about to be deported.

2. Where does Benjamin have to go, interrupting the family's trip?
(a) He has to go to Texas.
(b) He has to go to a hospital.
(c) He has to go to Newark.
(d) He has to go back to Morrisonville.

3. What new-fangeled luxury item did Uncle Tom have in his house?
(a) Central heat and air.
(b) An indoor bathroom.
(c) A television.
(d) A wood-burning stove.

4. According to everyone in town, where was Annie Grigsby born?
(a) In Milwaukee.
(b) In slavery.
(c) In London.
(d) In indentured servitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Benjamin's major flaw, according to Lucy?

2. What is Russell's earliest memory?

3. What happens to Russell's mother at the age of eighty?

4. Where are Russell and his family going for their first family trip?

5. How many children did Ida Rebecca have?

(see the answer key)

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