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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Seneca have difficulty sleeping at the Convent?
(a) She is unaccustomed to clean and comfortable accommodations.
(b) She is disturbed by the nun's band practicing all night.
(c) She lays awake at night plotting ways to steal the nun's gold.
(d) She is terrified of the scorpions that infest her room.

2. What is Richard Misner advocating on behalf of the young people?
(a) That their concerns be heard in addition to the concerns of the older men.
(b) That they be exempt from fieldwork if enrolled in school.
(c) That they be allowed to drive automobiles if licensed.
(d) That they be allowed to hold a barn dance.

3. What does Gigi discover about the vehicle she rides in?
(a) It has no seatbelts.
(b) It is stolen.
(c) The passenger door will not shut properly.
(d) It is a hearse.

4. What is Gigi searching for when she arrives in Ruby?
(a) Mavis's Cadillac.
(b) A mountain that looks like two lovers locked in embrace.
(c) Employment.
(d) Her birth mother.

5. In the story Elder told Steward, what were the white men doing?
(a) Filling sand bags in expectation of a flood.
(b) Gambling with dice.
(c) Building a grain silo.
(d) Beating a prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Connie so upset when Gigi first meets her?

2. Where were Deek and Steward born?

3. Who was Ruby Best's husband?

4. What unwashed, unprepared objects in the pantry at the Convent lead the men to believe that the women at the Convent are lazier than the women in Ruby?

5. Where does Arnette want to go in the coming year?

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