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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following holidays did the Karr girls miss, oblivious to the day of its celebration?
(a) Father's Day.
(b) All Saints' Day.
(c) Memorial Day.
(d) Mother's Day.

2. What was the name of the bartender at the bar where Charlie spent most of her time upon moving to Cascade?
(a) Hector.
(b) Gregory.
(c) Fernando.
(d) Julius.

3. For whom did Lecia lie and say she made hand-painted fishing lures?
(a) Pete.
(b) Mary.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Mr. McBride.

4. What common animal did Pete catch around the house and use to make gumbo for his family?
(a) Opossums.
(b) Squirrels.
(c) Rats.
(d) Raccoons.

5. What type of medicine did the doctors pump into Grandma Moore's body with the hopes of slowing down the spreading of Grandma's cancer?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Liquid Nitrogen.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Mustard gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mary at the opening of the memoir?

2. Which of the following food items did Hector regularly eat raw, which sickened Charlie?

3. What meal did Grandma Moore insist on eating rather than eating Pete's roadside gumbo?

4. What part of her mother's body did Mary dream about her father cleaving off after the family visited Charlie at the psychiatric ward?

5. With what type of weapon did Charlie threaten to harm her daughters?

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