View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What killed Benjamin at the young age of thirty-three?
(a) Whooping cough.
(b) Gout.
(c) Acute diabetic coma.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

3. What ancient medicine did the people of Morristown believe in?
(a) Powwowing.
(b) The sweat.
(c) Blood letting.
(d) Broths made from bark.

4. Who is Lucy's model of male excellence?
(a) Russell, her son.
(b) Allen, her brother.
(c) Benjamin, her husband.
(d) Papa, her father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy do with the present?

2. What did Cousin Edwin do for a living?

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

4. What did Russell's mother insist he would do?

5. What business did Uncle Etch run?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 290 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample