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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What local gossip does Theophilus repeat about the inscriptions along the path?
(a) The blank square is used for sacrificing goats.
(b) The villagers wrote the messages.
(c) His rival created them.
(d) The villagers believe they are magical.

2. What does Mrs. Stratton ask Oscar his opinion about the first night he dines with them?
(a) The new china pattern she has selected.
(b) The dining room curtains.
(c) Greek versus Latin languages.
(d) The propriety of having more than one altar.

3. What Sunday is it when Oscar leaves his father's home?
(a) Third Sunday in October.
(b) First Sunday in November.
(c) Second Sunday after Easter.
(d) Christmas Day.

4. What does Elizabeth Mullins say when she attempts to lay the palm leaf underneath the horse's feet?
(a) Be careful!
(b) Slow down!
(c) Whoa!
(d) Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.

5. What does Oscar pray for each night for the Strattons?
(a) Money.
(b) Children.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Theophilus Hopkins study in the natural world?

2. What does the willow pattern on the Stratton's china look like to Oscar?

3. What does Theophilus check every morning as Oscar stands on a footstool?

4. What does the narrator say was responsible for the story of the church?

5. What does Lucy make at the large table in the kitchen while Theophilus is sitting there?

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