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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Chicken-Coop Monster.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josie's mother announce the day after Josie's second visit to the conjure woman in "The Conjure Brother"?
(a) She's having a baby.
(b) School is starting soon.
(c) Adam died.
(d) They are moving.

2. What becomes Laura's daughter's favorite toy in "The Gingi"?
(a) The monkey.
(b) The noose.
(c) The boxcar.
(d) The statue.

3. What protects Laura and her daughter from an animal in the yard in "The Gingi"?
(a) A dog.
(b) A bird.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A cat.

4. Patricia McKissack's first book was a biography of what poet?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
(c) e.e. cummings.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

5. What does the doll look like, which the shopkeeper insists Laura take along with the statue, in "The Gingi"?
(a) A fish.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A bird.
(d) A lizard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Esau warns his father that the men from whom he borrowed money intend to do what in "The Sight"?

2. How much time passes before Leddy finds her son in "Boo Mama"?

3. What short story by Edgar Allan Poe shares a similar subject and theme as "Justice"?

4. What is the protagonist of "The Chicken-Coop Monster" given to raise?

5. Where does Laura spot a sculpture which catches her eye in "The Gingi"?

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