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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 297 - 370).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jolly propose to Lurie after Shaw and Mico die?
(a) They could travel to Turkey together.
(b) They could become bank robbers.
(c) They could leave the rest of the company, pretending they also died.
(d) They could open a boarding house together.

2. What does Josie tell Nora about Gramma in Part III that Nora does not believe?
(a) She moved.
(b) She expressed a wish to die soon.
(c) She prayed.
(d) She spoke.

3. What is the name of the rival newspaper a few towns over from where Nora lives?
(a) The Saratoga Review.
(b) The Allentown Caller.
(c) The Times-Tribune.
(d) The Ash River Clarion.

4. What does the doctor Lurie pays to see Burke offer Lurie for Burke?
(a) $15.
(b) $100.
(c) $200.
(d) $30.

5. What does Lurie remember telling the writer from Nevada about mounting a camel?
(a) You have to offer a camel water before mounting it.
(b) You have to humble yourself to mount a camel.
(c) No man can mount a camel without degradation.
(d) You have to eat heartily first to mount a camel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Emmett call Evelyn?

2. What does Nora think when Rob is born?

3. What does Nora think her two older boys are off to do in the end of Part II?

4. What does Merrion Crace cook at Nora's house when he comes to visit?

5. What does Lurie feel as the strong want of the giant-sized man he comes across in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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