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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Abigail want to replace the fence?
(a) She has no one to do the work.
(b) She wants to remember.
(c) She has no money.
(d) It is more practical to keep it.

2. What does the owl have for supper in the first Book of Abigail?
(a) Small bird.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Rabbit.

3. How many people are among the "parade of figures" that Abigail sees in her mind?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Nine.

4. What poetry does the elder Abigail enjoy reading out loud before she leaves for college?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Poe.
(d) Yeats.

5. How did William Marshall Howland die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Killed in the Civil War.
(d) Murdered by five Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is flying around the porch in the first chapter?

2. When William tells his granddaughter, "I used to think she'd glow in the night," to whom is he referring?

3. Who says, "Wind's to the west"?

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

5. What is likker?

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