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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is trainasse?
(a) Cajun name for swamp water.
(b) An animal found in the swamp.
(c) Creole name for narrow tunnels in a marsh.
(d) Cajun name for the marsh.

2. What is a 'painter' as mentioned in the Book of William?
(a) A type of slave.
(b) A bobcat.
(c) An artist.
(d) Someone who paints barns.

3. How many bedrooms does Annie count in the Howland home?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 22.

4. What is Lorena diagnosed with three days after giving birth to a son?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) The fever.
(d) Malaria.

5. Where does William's daughter go to college?
(a) Mary Baldwin in Virginia.
(b) H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in Louisiana.
(c) University of Montevallo in Alabama.
(d) Agnes Scott College in Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attacks William so that he coats his body with muck?

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

3. In the first chapter, how long has it been since Abigail has seen one of Margaret's children?

4. From what state did William Marshall Howland originally come?

5. Where have the oldest children left to go to school at in the first chapter?

(see the answer key)

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