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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amos bring everyone to the hayloft barn?
(a) Because the storm begins to flood the house.
(b) Because robbers have broken into the house.
(c) Because Amos wants to have a prayer meeting.
(d) Because racist townsfolk are threatening the Wingo servants.

2. What is it about Henry Wingo that is difficult for Tom to reconcile?
(a) He cannot understand how Tolitha and Amos created such a dangerous man.
(b) He does not see how the war made his father such an emotional person.
(c) He does not know why his father loved Luke more than Tom.
(d) He does not think his father taught him anything growing up.

3. Why does Isabel Newbury leave Tom and his mother standing on the porch?
(a) Isabel refuses to answer the door.
(b) Todd's father will erupt if he sees Tom.
(c) Standing on the porch is part of Tom's punishment.
(d) Todd doesn't want to speak to Tom.

4. Which of the following is NOT true about the traumatic memory from the Wingo childhood?
(a) Lila insists it never happened.
(b) Tom and Luke agree never to speak about it.
(c) Tom and Luke remember every detail of what happened that day.
(d) Savannah seems to be unaffected by the experience.

5. What does Tom leave in the Newbury house while they are out of town?
(a) A dead squirrel.
(b) A dead loggerhead turtle.
(c) A pile of rotting shrimp.
(d) A bag of horse manure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Tom tries to explain the game of football to Dr. Lowenstein?

2. How does the Wingo family react to the last still born, Rose Ann?

3. Where do Tom and Dr. Lowenstein go the night after their initial meeting?

4. Tom describes his father as a ________.

5. In Chapter Five, what job is given to the Wingo children when they go to live with Papa John?

(see the answer key)

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