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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Son or The First Man, The Chicken Coop and Cutting the Hen's Throat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the population like around their new home?
(a) There were a few people, but the people shunned them.
(b) It was a city.
(c) There weren't many people.
(d) It was a friendly neighborhood where families stayed outside in the evenings to talk.

2. Who did Jacques walk to school with?
(a) His teacher.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His mother.

3. According to Jacques' grandmother, what illness did Lucie have when she was young?
(a) The flu.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. What did Lucie do with the letter announcing her husband's death?
(a) She read it then put it in the family album.
(b) She put it in her pocket since she couldn't read.
(c) She burned it.
(d) She tore it up.

5. How did the grandmother kill the hen?
(a) She strangled it.
(b) She hit it on the head with a pan.
(c) She thew it in a pot of boiling water.
(d) With a sharp knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did he and his friends stop on the way to the field?

2. What was the relationship like between Ernest and Jacques?

3. Who tried to protect the chickens from thieves?

4. How did the man react to all the waiting he had to do in his travels?

5. What did the farmer do?

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