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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. Why does the pirate not retrieve his treasure?
(a) He converts and does not want ill-gotten treasure.
(b) Tom Walker finds it first.
(c) Someone moves it.
(d) He is executed.

2. Tom's house is described as forlorn. What kind of house is it?
(a) Overdecorated.
(b) Tall and imposing.
(c) Sad and lonely.
(d) Falling apart.

3. What is financial speculation?
(a) A group of expert opinions about the economy.
(b) A joking term for illegal gambling.
(c) Buying something with the hope that it will rapidly increase in value.
(d) Illegal investing by people with inside information.

4. What causes Tom to start to worry about the deal he has made with the devil?
(a) He has a near-miss with a carriage accident.
(b) He hears a traveling preacher speak.
(c) He thinks that he sees the ghost of his wife.
(d) He gets older and begins to worry about death.

5. Who wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
(a) Stephen Vincent Benét
(b) Washington Irving.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Geoffery Crayon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tom open his business?

2. What happens to all of Tom's money and property at the end of the story?

3. Why does the devil stay away from Tom for a while after Tom's wife disappears?

4. According to the narrator, why does Tom not immediately agree to the devil's bargain?

5. Part of the story is set in a morass. What kind of location is this?

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