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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Katy moaning in the Book of Margaret?
(a) She has appendicitis.
(b) She's in mourning.
(c) She has been bitten by a rattlesnake.
(d) She's in labor.

2. Who ran off to a ship at Savannah and disappeared?
(a) An earlier William Howland.
(b) William's nephew.
(c) The landlady's husband.
(d) Lorena's brother.

3. What does Margaret eat from the streams?
(a) Wild watercress.
(b) Fish.
(c) Frogs.
(d) Turtle.

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

5. Where do the newly married Tollivers honeymoon?
(a) Miami.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Houston.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Abigail away from home for almost a year?

2. Who tells Abigail that she's not "beholden" to the Howland home?

3. Who is Robert Stokes?

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

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

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