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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease does Oliver Gant have?
(a) Prostate cancer
(b) Crone's disease
(c) Heart failure
(d) Brights disease

2. Who does Ben work for?
(a) His father
(b) His mother
(c) A magazine company
(d) The newspaper

3. Who does Eugene not tell about his new job?
(a) The Leonards
(b) Ben
(c) Oliver
(d) Eliza

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

5. What is the family's reaction when he returns?
(a) Eliza is happy but the children are angry
(b) Eliza and the children are glad he's back
(c) Eliza and the children are upset that he is back
(d) Eliza is angry but the children are happy

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

7. What is the most difficult part of the job?
(a) Working for Ben
(b) Finding clients
(c) Collecting his money
(d) Working with his father

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

9. What social campaign does Gant join?
(a) Civil rights campaign
(b) Liquor by the drink campaign
(c) Anti immigrant campaign
(d) Temperance campaign

10. What caused the scar on Eugene's forehead?
(a) He fell in a well
(b) He was hit by a gate handle
(c) He was kicked by a horse
(d) He was hit in the head by his father's hammer

11. What does Oliver threaten to do to Eliza?
(a) Kill her
(b) Send back to her family
(c) Leave her
(d) Have her arrested

12. Who is haveing a baby in this chapter?
(a) Eliza
(b) Daisy
(c) Helen
(d) Mrs. Selbourne

13. Who is Horse Hines?
(a) A stonecutter
(b) The local undertaker
(c) The Presbyterian minister
(d) A stable owner

14. What characteristic do most of Ben's girlfriends have in common?
(a) They are several years younger than Ben
(b) They are prostitutes
(c) They are several years older than Ben
(d) They have been dating Eugene

15. What happens to Daisy in this chapter?
(a) She becomes very ill
(b) She is killed by a horse
(c) She moves to New Orleans
(d) She gets married

Short Answer Questions

1. What event causes Eliza to go to run a boarding house?

2. What is Eugene's principal's name?

3. Who is the woman from South Carolina who comes to Altamont to stay during the summer and lives at the rooming house?

4. How do Eugene's teachers treat him?

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

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