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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) Raliegh
(b) Baltimore
(c) Sidney
(d) Altamont

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

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

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

5. At home, how would you describe Oliver and the fires in the fireplace?
(a) He builds enormous fires
(b) He never builds a fire
(c) He builds small fires
(d) He won't allow fires to be built in the fireplace

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

7. In Part 2, Chapter 18 where does Steve live?
(a) Dixieland
(b) South Carolina
(c) Indiana
(d) New Orleans

8. In this chapter the positive influence of what woman is highlighted?
(a) Mrs. Selbourne
(b) Eliza
(c) Helen
(d) Mrs. Leonard

9. Who is Eugene Gant?
(a) Another name for Steve Gant
(b) Oliver and Eliza's youngest child
(c) Eliza's child by Oliver's brother
(d) Oliver's brother

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

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

12. Gilbert Guant changed his name to what?
(a) Thomas Gant
(b) Wilbert Gant
(c) Albert Gant
(d) Gilbert Gant

13. Who is Guy Doak?
(a) Ben's boss
(b) Eugene's roommate
(c) A local store owner
(d) A paper boy

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

15. Who dies of typhoid in this chapter?
(a) Helen
(b) Oliver
(c) Grover
(d) Ben

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dominant force in the Gant home?

2. What job does Eugene have?

3. What does Guy Doak do for Eugene?

4. In Chapter 23 where does Eliza go?

5. What is the community where he works called?

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