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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Devil and Tom Walker".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say makes it difficult to know what actually happened to Tom's wife?
(a) The whole story is likely to be false.
(b) She disappeared a long time ago.
(c) There are too many stories told by different historians.
(d) No one but Tom seems to have really noticed her disappearance.

2. Why is Tom happy to see the apron?
(a) He believes that it means his wife is dead.
(b) He believes that it contains valuable items.
(c) He thinks it means his wife may be nearby.
(d) He thinks that his wife left it as a sign to him.

3. What is Tom's reaction to the disappearance and likely death of his wife?
(a) It makes him afraid.
(b) It cheers him up.
(c) He is in shock.
(d) He is angry.

4. What part of the fort remains standing?
(a) An alter to the devil.
(b) A cellar.
(c) Some partial walls.
(d) Some mounded up earth.

5. In the version of the story that the narrator says is most likely to be true, what draws Tom's attention to the tree where his wife's apron hangs?
(a) The sound of crows calling.
(b) An eerie red light.
(c) The tree is encircled with snakes.
(d) Her name scratched into the bark of the tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare Tom's clients to?

2. What is one unusual physical feature of the devil?

3. What is true about the horses that draw Tom's carriage?

4. What is one source of trouble in Tom Walker's marriage?

5. What does the devil have all over his skin?

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