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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Day the Dam Broke.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thurber say his grandmother and mother fear?
(a) Rats.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Cats.

2. What do the Columbus believe has broken?
(a) The buses.
(b) The dam.
(c) The well.
(d) The sewage system.

3. How is Briggs Breal related to Thurber?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His first cousin.
(c) His second cousin.
(d) His aunt.

4. Where does Thurber say he grew up as a boy?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Columbus.

5. Why did Thurber's father decide to sleep in the attic?
(a) So he could get away from his wife.
(b) So he could watch the stars.
(c) So he could think.
(d) So he could read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thurber say lasts for two hours?

2. What does Roy put under the car to simulate catastrophe?

3. Who drives a Red Devil?

4. How do the locals get the grandfather out of the town?

5. What did Zenas die from?

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