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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where are Russell and his family going for their first family trip?
(a) Newark, to visit Uncle Etch.
(b) Taylorstown, to visit Uncle Miller.
(c) Hoboken, to visit Aunt Sally.
(d) Morrisonville, to visit Ida Rebecca.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two types of people does Russell feel are forever disconnected?

2. What two women in Russell's early life were involved in a hateful feud?

3. In his first job, for what company does Russell work?

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

5. Who was buried in the expensive glass coffin?

(see the answer key)

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