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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Sample Rains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits Agatha and Thomas with a picnic basket of fried chicken and chocolate cake while their mother naps?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Ian and Bee Bedloe.
(c) Mr. Bellings.
(d) Mr. Rumford.

2. Who told Mrs. Jordan the name of Agatha and Thomas' father?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Doug.
(c) Agatha.
(d) Thomas.

3. How does Agatha wake up Lucy when she's been sleeping for a long time?
(a) Shouting.
(b) A spoonful of instant coffee in a coke.
(c) Loud music.
(d) Fresh air.

4. Who comes to baby-sit the children during Lucy's funeral?
(a) Mrs. Myrdal.
(b) Mrs. Thomas.
(c) Abby.
(d) Bee.

5. Whom does Ian invite to the Church of the Second Chance's picnic?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Jeanine.
(c) Bee and Doug.
(d) Cicely.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Six, when Ian sees Eli Everjohn for the second time at church, what does he ask him to do?

2. What fairy tale characters does Agatha compare herself and her brother with, after her mother sips a coke and takes pills at her bedside?

3. Who is Thomas Robert Dulsimore?

4. Who calls Lucy "common as dirt"?

5. What does Claudia bring her mother to help with her arthritis?

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