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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the promise that Mother reminds Father he made to her?
(a) To build a house before their first year of marriage was over.
(b) To build a house sometime during the first ten years of their marriage.
(c) To have more children.
(d) To build her a second barn.

2. What is the second thing Mother asks of Father once the bantering is over?
(a) If he is planning to buy more cows.
(b) If he is planning to buy more pigs.
(c) If he is planning to buy more horses.
(d) If he is planning to hire more workers.

3. Why is "The Revolt of 'Mother'" typical of this author's writing?
(a) The story provides a look at a child and his interactions with his mother.
(b) The story provides a look at a woman and her interactions with friends.
(c) The story provides a look at a woman and her interactions with husband and children.
(d) The story provides a look at a husband and his interactions with friends.

4. Why does Mother react the way she does to knowing why men are digging in the field?
(a) She does not care if there is a new hole.
(b) She is angry because the new house is supposed to go where the men are digging.
(c) She is sad because she does not want a hole where they are digging.
(d) She is happy because she wants a hole in the spot they are digging.

5. What does Father say about Mother's reaction to the house and barn?
(a) It is odd how Mother feels about the new barn.
(b) It is odd how Mother feels about the new house.
(c) It is great how Mother feels about the new barn.
(d) It is odd how Mother feels about old barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nanny's confusion regarding the reason to why men are digging in the field center upon?

2. Based on the statement that Mother makes to Nanny after Father leaves the farm, from whom is she receiving direction for her thoughts?

3. What happens as Mother makes her statement after Father leaves the farm?

4. When Nanny returns to the house, what does she tell her mother?

5. From the introduction, how does the reader know that the protagonist will defy social convention?

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