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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Longhair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Abel went to look at the bird he caught, helpless in the sack, he felt bad so he __________ it.
(a) Ate
(b) Loosened
(c) Freed
(d) Suffocated

2. What was Abel listening to men do when his grandfather called him to see his dead brother?
(a) Argue
(b) Shout
(c) Pray
(d) Joke

3. How much is Abel paid to cut the wood that Mrs. Martin St. John asks him to cut up for her?
(a) $10
(b) $25
(c) $3
(d) $5

4. What at the last minute passed by Abel as he was lying on the side of a wooded hill during the war?
(a) Motorcycle
(b) Officer
(c) Plane
(d) Tank

5. There was plenty of excitement at the gathering in January of 1937 as the men shouted and _______________.
(a) Played music
(b) Danced
(c) Fired rifles
(d) Fought

Short Answer Questions

1. After binding the bait together and placing it into a sack, Abel gathered ___________ and cut a number of evergreen boughs.

2. When he left, Abel remembered too late to look back in the direction of ___________.

3. Forming a large __________, the men moved slowly inwards, clapping their hands and picking off their victims.

4. Abel came upon a(n) ___________ house, a small tower of stone built around a pit, hollow and open at the top.

5. What is caught in a small snare trap that the old man has set at the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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