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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is John stationed during the Korean war?
(a) Germany.
(b) Seoul.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) New Orleans.

2. What had William hunted as a boy for a quarter for each skin?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Coons.
(c) Fox.
(d) Snakes.

3. Why is Abigail away from home for almost a year?
(a) Hiding her from her father.
(b) Margaret is mourning due to two miscarriages.
(c) Her grandfather and Margaret take Abigail's mother to a tuberculosis sanitarium.
(d) A flood takes away the home, which has to be rebuilt.

4. Who is Abigail referring to when she says, "He was as courtly as a planter out of a novel"?
(a) John Tolliver.
(b) President of the university.
(c) The governor.
(d) William.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has fallen into a weaving of invisible threads at the beginning of the book?

2. What color is the wood of John's home office desk?

3. Who did Abigail's father quote after the World War II started in 1939?

4. In Abigail's imagination, who stands next to her on the porch in the first Book of Abigail?

5. What is a 'painter' as mentioned in the Book of William?

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