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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nick's mood?
(a) Petulant
(b) Brooding
(c) Sarcastic
(d) Excited

2. What do Nick, his father and Uncle George deal with at the Indian camp?
(a) Fires burning all around the camp
(b) Wounds from knife fights
(c) Floods washing away the cabins
(d) A primitive caesarean section for a breech birth

3. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?
(a) Jetsam
(b) Kindling
(c) A nuisance
(d) Flotsam

4. In what year does this story take place?
(a) 2002
(b) 1922
(c) 1903
(d) 1822

5. What do the Greek soldiers do to their mules after they break the front legs of the animals?
(a) Shoot them in the head
(b) Push them off the dock into shallow water
(c) Force them to carry heavy loads
(d) Bludgeon them to death

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

2. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?

3. Who is Marjorie?

4. Why does Dr. Adams think Boulton picked a fight with him?

5. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?

(see the answer key)

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