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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What specter does Ida Rebecca see in her doorway one night?
(a) Etch.
(b) Miller.
(c) Raymond.
(d) Irvey.

3. To whom did Lucy Elizabeth give up Audrey?
(a) Ida Rebecca.
(b) Uncle Tom and Aunt Goldie.
(c) Uncle Irvey.
(d) Uncle Miller and Aunt Eustace.

4. What does Lucy do after the death of Papa to make ends meet?
(a) Lucy opens a tavern.
(b) Lucy works in a knitting factory.
(c) Lucy becomes a schoolteacher.
(d) Lucy sells the ancestral family home.

5. Why do Oluf and Lucy Elizabeth stop their correspondence?
(a) Lucy Elizabeth finds someone else to court in Newark.
(b) Oluf has no more money for stamps.
(c) Lucy Elizabeth does not love him anymore.
(d) Oluf is in despair and cannot support himself or her family.

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

7. Who was the person with whom Lucy Elizabeth corresponded in Newark?
(a) Aunt Goldie.
(b) Uncle Tom.
(c) Ida Rebecca.
(d) Oluf.

8. Despite the medicine, what ailment do Russell and Doris contract?
(a) Whooping cough.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Tuberculosis.

9. Who doesn't Uncle Hal get along with in the house?
(a) Lucy Elizabeth.
(b) Uncle Charlie.
(c) Doris.
(d) Aunt Pat.

10. What medicine does Aunt Pat insist on giving to Russell and Doris?
(a) Essence of basil.
(b) Ketchup.
(c) Cod liver oil.
(d) Calcium carbonate.

11. During a high school debate in 1913, what does Lucy argue in favor of?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Women's suffrage.
(c) Hoovervilles.
(d) The death penalty.

12. While his bully was Irish, Russell's friends were ______.
(a) Portuguese.
(b) Italian.
(c) Finnish.
(d) Argentinian.

13. According to Uncle Irvey, "A man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is ____?" (p. 55)
(a) Hard to run.
(b) Never done.
(c) A ton.
(d) Always fun.

14. What does Lucy do with the present?
(a) She throws it in the garbage.
(b) She throws it out the back door.
(c) She forces Benjamin to take it back.
(d) She helps Doris set it up.

15. When Russell was a young boy, what famous President's time could many of the old men remember (from first-hand accounts)?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) John Quincy Adams.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Benjamin have to go, interrupting the family's trip?

2. What tipped Lucy Elizabeth's decision to leave Audrey?

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

4. Who is Lucy's model of male excellence?

5. Where does Lucy Elizabeth take the family when they leave Morrisonville?

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