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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many inches of rain does the author describe falling at the University of Washington during the course of a month of flooding in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?
(a) 12 and three-quarters of an inch.
(b) 10 and a half inches.
(c) 19 and a half inches.
(d) 14 and a quarter inches.

2. What was the name of the custom-built sectional boat that Sir Henry Stanley used to search for Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa in 1874?
(a) The Green Dragon.
(b) Lady Alice.
(c) The Whitehorse.
(d) SS Manhattan.

3. What was novel about the manner in which Joe Rantz's parents married?
(a) They were married over the internet.
(b) They were married on a mountaintop.
(c) They were married in an airplane.
(d) They were married over the telephone.

4. What word from Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 3 refers to an even balance or distribution of weight?
(a) Ellipses.
(b) Elocution.
(c) Posterior.
(d) Equipoise.

5. What was the name of the University of Washington student that accidentally set himself on fire during a bonfire and was killed in 1933?
(a) Byron Noble.
(b) Angus Hay Jr.
(c) Roger Morris.
(d) Willis Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the family that Joe's father took Joe to live with near the Hama Hama Logging Company in 1924?

2. When was the Aurora Bridge opened?

3. What was the name of Joe Rantz's father?

4. In the fourth year of the Great Depression, how many Americans had no job or prospect of finding one, according to the author in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?

5. Where did Harry go to fetch a doctor when Thula went into labor in November of 1924?

(see the answer key)

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