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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the routine Peggy gets into with her new baby?
(a) Exciting days in the garden.
(b) Leisurely feeding and naps.
(c) Grinding housework.
(d) Exhausting days of colic.

2. What is the style of the house Lee lives in near Stillwater College?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Restoration.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Modern.

3. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?
(a) They browbeat them.
(b) They lecture them.
(c) They ignore them.
(d) They spoil them.

4. What does Peggy make Karen wear in the woods around their house?
(a) Bug spray.
(b) An orange cap.
(c) A sweater.
(d) Sunglasses.

5. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?
(a) Trucks on the highway.
(b) Pine needles in the breeze.
(c) Crickets.
(d) Bullfrogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lee get instead of a salary from Stillwater College?

2. Who was it that got Peggy to see that she was “intended to be a man” (3)?

3. What was the main building of Stillwater College before it was a college?

4. What does Lee say all poems are about?

5. What kind of reading material has Peggy brought with her to the shack?

(see the answer key)

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