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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to the author, was the great Depression pastime?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Reading.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Talking.

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

4. In seventh grade, what farm produce does Russell write about?
(a) Corn.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Soybeans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During her tenure at Arlington School in Loundoun County, what illegal operation is nearby?

2. What superstitions does Ida Rebecca believe, but Lucy Elizabeth does not?

3. During a high school debate in 1913, what does Lucy argue in favor of?

4. What did Cousin Edwin do for a living?

5. Despite the medicine, what ailment do Russell and Doris contract?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the family's long lost fortune.

2. Where has Russell and his family gone to celebrate the hog-butchering season?

3. What is Russell's earliest memory?

4. To whom does Lucy "give up" Audrey?

5. Where does the family move after Morrisonville?

6. What is "powwowing"?

7. What did Lucy Elizabeth feel was her greatest failure with Benjamin?

8. What remedy does Aunt Pat insist is good for the children, but they find disgusting?

9. Why has Uncle Charlie chosen never to leave the house?

10. What does Uncle Edwin do for a living?

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