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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abigail toss into the concrete yard?
(a) John's desk.
(b) Photographs of William's and Margaret's children.
(c) John's chair.
(d) Her grandfather's reading chair.

2. Who says that William's decision to remain a widower is indecent?
(a) Abigail, his daughter.
(b) Annie, his sister.
(c) Mariah Peters.
(d) Lucy Whittemore.

3. Which one of Margaret's children has Abigail recently seen in the first chapter?
(a) Robert.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Will.
(d) Bill.

4. What do people clean muddy shoes on at the Howland home?
(a) Rinses off with well water.
(b) Boot scraper shaped like two rabbits.
(c) Uses a stick to get the mud out.
(d) Cleans them in the river.

5. What makes prisms in the light, according to Abigail's observation?
(a) Glass.
(b) Tears.
(c) Waterfall.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the river compared to in the first Book of Abigail?

2. What mammal does William see at the large freshwater lake in the middle of the swamp?

3. Whom does Abigail envision as saying, "just like a Howland"?

4. Why is Katy moaning in the Book of Margaret?

5. What career does Robert have, and where is his first job?

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