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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Catherine able to tell just by looking at the cotton?
(a) It would provide a plentiful crop.
(b) It would make a sad crop.
(c) It hadn't been tended to properly.
(d) It was being picked prematurely.

2. What does the sheriff tell the dispatcher to call enough men for?
(a) To work on his house.
(b) A game of basketball.
(c) To guard Catherine's house.
(d) A coroner's jury.

3. What does Catherine pass on her way to the tenant shack at the beginning of the novel?
(a) A dead dog.
(b) A dead squirrel.
(c) A strawberry farm.
(d) A farmer.

4. What color did the tenant shack used to be?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. Who is Catherine?
(a) The author of the book.
(b) The main character's mother.
(c) The heroine of the novel.
(d) A minor character in the novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Catherine wearing when she learned about the death of her parents?

2. Who does the body the Catherine discovers turn out to be?

3. Why did Catherine feel obligated to be kind to the new doctor in Lowfield?

4. What type of tree does Catherine park her car under at the tenant shack?

5. What is Catherine pestered by when she is out at the tenant shack?

(see the answer key)

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