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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After meeting Mimi, what is Lucy's comment?
(a) Man works from sunup to sundown but a woman's work is never done.
(b) She seems a few important cards short of a working deck.
(c) She wouldn't be a bad-looking girl if she didn't wear so much makeup.
(d) Russell should propose right away before someone else does.

2. What is Russell's earliest memory?
(a) Eleven's bulging biceps.
(b) A cow poking its head into his crib.
(c) His mother rocking him to sleep.
(d) The yellow house across from his grandmother's house.

3. What does Mr. Simmons do from the hole in the cellar ceiling?
(a) He runs a bootleg whiskey operation.
(b) He steals money out of people's pockets.
(c) He is a spy for the government.
(d) He looks up women's skirts.

4. Who was buried in the expensive glass coffin?
(a) Sam Reever.
(b) Uncle Irvey.
(c) Lucy Elizabeth.
(d) Ida Rebecca.

5. What does Lucy call his new love?
(a) A smooth operator.
(b) A know it all.
(c) A ladybird.
(d) A cafe trotter.

Short Answer Questions

1. After meeting Mimi, what does Lucy begin to do?

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

3. How does Uncle Harold die?

4. What does Herb do for a living?

5. Which long-lost uncle begins to send Lucy Elizabeth support money?

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