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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 A+ essay has Russell written?
(a) The Sound and the Fury.
(b) The Art of Eating Spaghetti.
(c) The Way to Tie a Shoe.
(d) The History of Baltimore Abridged.

3. What must Russell sometimes walk past in the downstairs parlor?
(a) The library.
(b) The basement door.
(c) Dead bodies.
(d) The landlord's dog.

4. What superstitions does Ida Rebecca believe, but Lucy Elizabeth does not?
(a) She believes in throwing salt over one shoulder.
(b) She believes in ghosts and omens.
(c) She believes in fairies and magic.
(d) She believes in vampires and garlic.

5. Where did Russell and his family live in 1932?
(a) Morrisonville, New Jersey.
(b) Baltimore, Maryland.
(c) Belleville, New Jersey.
(d) New York City, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Russell invite Mimi, only to give her hours of walking tour history lessons?

2. One morning during his paper route, what terrifying story does Russell read?

3. What happens to Russell while trying to play on his first day in Newark?

4. Where does Uncle Allen get his $30-a-week job?

5. What does Russell learn to love about Uncle Harold?

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