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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Ruthie in Chapter 10?
(a) 14.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

2. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?
(a) The St. Louis Fair.
(b) The Illinois State Fair.
(c) New York City.
(d) Coney Island.

3. What do the tractors in the novel represent symbolically?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) The accomplishments of intelligence.
(c) The education system.
(d) The birth of innocence.

4. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?
(a) Sewannee.
(b) Shawnee.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Sycamore.

5. What did Uncle John's wife presumably die from?
(a) Suicide.
(b) A fall.
(c) A burst appendix.
(d) A brain aneurism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tom say visited at McAlester last Christmas with cornet music in Chapter 10?

2. When the narrator describes a tractor in Chapter 11, he states, "The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse" (117). What literary device is employed in this sentence?

3. How many people were in the family that was picked up by a sedan that pulled their trailer to California, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?

4. How long ago does Grampa say it was that his brother went out West to California in Chapter 10?

5. What is the tenant farmer holding as he watches the tractor wreck his home in Chapter 5?

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