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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ben really want to do?
(a) Start his own newspaper
(b) Move to New Orleans
(c) Become a war correspondent
(d) Go to war

2. Who continues to emerge as a real inspiration to Eugene?
(a) Mrs. Leonard
(b) Steve
(c) Eliza
(d) Jennings Ward

3. What does Coker do?
(a) He is a lung specialist
(b) He is a stable owner
(c) He is the local undertaker
(d) He is a pharmacist

4. What does Eugene win in this chapter?
(a) A baseball game
(b) A bet on a horse
(c) A poker game
(d) An essay contest

5. Where does Eugene stay while his mother is away?
(a) At Helen's
(b) At his father's house
(c) At the Leonards
(d) At Dixieland

6. What does Eliza want from Oliver?
(a) She needs money for her roominghouse
(b) His stonecutter shop
(c) The angel in front of his shop
(d) For him to move back to Dixieland

7. What does Guy Doak do for Eugene?
(a) Helps him learn his school work
(b) Helps him get his money
(c) Helps him get a girl
(d) Brings him extra food

8. What happens to Eliza in 1900?
(a) She gets pregnant again
(b) Steve, her oldest child, dies
(c) She and Oliver's marriage collapses
(d) Her brother Will dies

9. How old is Eugene in chapter 22?
(a) 18
(b) 16
(c) 14
(d) 12

10. What event causes Eliza to go to run a boarding house?
(a) 1904 World's Fair
(b) The start of World War I
(c) The opening of the Empire State building
(d) 1904 World's Series

11. What would best describe Eliza's business interests?
(a) She is not a very good business person
(b) Eliza is doing well but her brother Will is not
(c) The roominghouse is not making money
(d) They are doing very well

12. What does Oliver sell to Eliza?
(a) His interest in the roominghouse
(b) The angel
(c) His burial plot
(d) His shop

13. Who is the woman from South Carolina who comes to Altamont to stay during the summer and lives at the rooming house?
(a) Mrs. Osbourne
(b) Mrs. Guant
(c) Mrs. Pentland
(d) Mrs. Selbourne

14. What job does Eugene take on in chapter 22?
(a) Working at Dixieland
(b) A paper route
(c) Working at a mill
(d) Working for his dad

15. Who does Mrs. Leonard help with information about the war?
(a) George Graves
(b) Ben
(c) Jennings Ware
(d) Eugene

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jennings tell Eugene to collect on some accounts?

2. What is the name of Eliza's rooming house?

3. What is the name of the school that Eugene begins attending in this chapter?

4. Which character travels with Eliza on most of her trips?

5. What prompts Gant's rampage in this chapter?

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