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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl in Chapter 6 say she hates?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Whining.
(c) Being hungry.
(d) Rainy days.

2. What is "Growly"?
(a) Name of Richard's seaplane.
(b) Leslie's nickname.
(c) Pilot identification name.
(d) Richard's nickname.

3. What does young Richard say he likes about flying fighter planes?
(a) Bombing.
(b) Flying through clouds.
(c) Glory.
(d) Destroying targets.

4. How many people might young Richard kill if he flies the plane that drops a hydrogen bomb in 1962?
(a) Twenty thousand.
(b) Nine hundred thousand.
(c) Sixty thousand.
(d) Thirteen hundred.

5. How does Richard describe Leslie's hair at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Reddish brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Golden.
(d) Black as night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leslie give up as a young woman?

2. What is the thin young woman playing in the old stone house when Leslie and Richard arrive?

3. How much time does Richard estimate they have left to fly the plane when the fuel gauge is not working at the beginning of the novel?

4. What does the young Leslie's family think of her as stated in Chapter 6?

5. Where do Richard and Leslie try to land their plane at the beginning of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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