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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?
(a) He shakes his hand.
(b) He extends a gift to the teacher.
(c) He bows.
(d) He salutes.

2. How does the boy get to school?
(a) By bus.
(b) By trolley.
(c) By carriage.
(d) He walks.

3. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(b) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(c) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
(d) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.

4. What do the father's papers say?
(a) He has permission to travel.
(b) He has been acquitted for his thievery.
(c) He is innocent of murder.
(d) He is allowed out of the country for one week.

5. Where does the mother wait for the father?
(a) On the train.
(b) In town.
(c) Inside the station house.
(d) Outside the station house.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?

2. Who takes his father off the train?

3. What do the inquisitors accuse the father of doing?

4. What does the maid call the boy?

5. How does the mother feel about her new situation?

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