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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Spelling Bee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Alvin lay down?
(a) All of these.
(b) To wait for the water to clear.
(c) To wait for the sun to come out.
(d) To make Makepeace feel guilty that he had left Alvin out with no water or food.

2. Why did Alvin give his boots away?
(a) He didn't like how they looked.
(b) They were too big for him.
(c) They hurt his feet.
(d) A poor family had a boy around Alvin's age.

3. Why did Mock Berry stay so poor?
(a) No one treated the Berry's fair.
(b) People hated the Berry's.
(c) People would charge Mock more than they charge a white customer.
(d) People disliked the black family.

4. Why was Alvin having difficulties grasping the theory regarding atoms?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Alvin couldn't see an atom.
(c) There was nothing he could think of so small that couldn't be cut.
(d) Both of these.

5. What did Peggy wish to be?
(a) Mistress Modesty.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) None of these.
(d) A supplicant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What errand was Alvin on for Makepeace?

2. What did Mistress Modesty imagine when she thought of Peggy's pain?

3. Who was in the General Store when Alvin arrived?

4. What was the first word Arthur spelled out?

5. What does Peggy see when she looks into Alvin's future?

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