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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the dentist's office waiting room full of smoke?
(a) Because there are two men smoking pipes.
(b) Because there is a candle burning in every corner of the room.
(c) Because the fireplace is stopped up.
(d) Because there is a fire burning in the empty field.

2. What does Mama plan on getting with her leftover money?
(a) Some syrup.
(b) A piece of salt meat.
(c) A can of beans.
(d) A loaf of bread.

3. What color does the young black man with the book claim the grass is?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

4. When Mama and James get ready to leave after they have eaten, why does Mama stop at the door and go back into the store?
(a) She asks for more milk.
(b) She asks to see the garbage cans.
(c) She thanks the man and the woman again.
(d) She asks the woman if she can buy some salt meat.

5. What did Mama want James to do after she killed the bird?
(a) She wanted James to say a prayer for the bird.
(b) She wanted James to go inside and apologize.
(c) She wanted James to capture another bird.
(d) She wanted James to kill the second bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, " I'm going one way and he pulling the other"?

2. What time is it on the clock that James sees at the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. What has been hurting James?

4. When someone stares down the long old road, they see nothing but what?

5. Mama stayed up late before Daddy did what?

(see the answer key)

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