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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 quiet and still and dry in the first chapter?
(a) The river.
(b) November evenings.
(c) The trees.
(d) The Howland estate.

2. What river is referred to at the beginning of the book?
(a) Canadian River.
(b) Natchez River.
(c) Providence River.
(d) The Mississippi.

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

4. What does Abigail see in place of the fence?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Wood for a new fence.
(c) Cherokee rose branches.
(d) Rope.

5. What is squirming "helplessly on the boards" of the porch?
(a) A bird with a broken wing.
(b) Abigail.
(c) A mouse.
(d) Beetles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is surrounded by "tiers of flesh"?

3. Who is Marge?

4. How did William Marshall Howland die?

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

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