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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the town where Gant eventually settles?
(a) Baltimore
(b) Altamont
(c) Raliegh
(d) Sidney

2. Where else does Eugene go in this chapter?
(a) His church
(b) The library
(c) The prostitute's house
(d) The quarry where his father gets stones

3. By the age of 15 what set of literary facts does Eugene know?
(a) Virtually every English poet
(b) The works of Charles Dickens
(c) Virtually every American novelist
(d) All of Longfellow's poems

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

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

6. Who does Helen and Luke live with at this stage in the book (Part 2, Chapter 19)?
(a) Oliver Gant
(b) Eugene Gant
(c) Eliza Gant
(d) Steve Gant

7. What happens to Eugene's parents in this chapter (Part 1, Chapter 11)?
(a) They have a major fight
(b) They move away for a short time
(c) They separate
(d) They divorce

8. What does Eugene get a lot of teasing for as a young boy?
(a) His long hair
(b) His funny ears
(c) His stuttering
(d) His long legs

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

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

11. Steve returns in this chapter, where has he been?
(a) New York
(b) New Orleans
(c) Atlanta
(d) Richmond

12. What happens in Part 2, Chapter 25?
(a) World War I starts
(b) The Civil War starts
(c) World War II starts
(d) The Hundred Years War starts

13. At this point in the book, where is Ben working?
(a) Dixieland
(b) The newspaper
(c) His father's shop
(d) He is not working

14. Who is the previous employee?
(a) Steve
(b) Ben
(c) Luke
(d) Jennings Ware

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Eliza and Oliver partner with?

2. What do Eugene and George Graves do in this chapter?

3. From time to time, where to Gant and Eugene go?

4. Who brings Oliver a suitcase full of alcoholic beverages?

5. What illness does Eliza have?

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