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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illusion does Abigail have in the first chapter?
(a) The house appears as it was.
(b) Her grandfather is still alive.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is dead.

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

3. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail believe she sees over the river?
(a) A person.
(b) An owl.
(c) A thick mist.
(d) A huge fish.

4. Who is surrounded by "tiers of flesh"?
(a) Annie Howland Campbell.
(b) Gregory Mason.
(c) William Howland.
(d) Howland Campbell.

5. Why are there no pictures of Lorena Adams Howland?
(a) Lorena refused to allow her picture to be taken.
(b) William burned them one afternoon.
(c) They were lost over the years.
(d) They burned in a house fire.

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

7. What looks like a choppy sea to Abigail?
(a) The porch.
(b) The water inside the watering tin.
(c) The river.
(d) The front yard.

8. Who is passed out in the corner after the groom's breakfast?
(a) Gregory Mason.
(b) Harry Armstrong.
(c) Mr. Bannister.
(d) Howland Campbell.

9. What is Abigail's son's name?
(a) Willie.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Bobby.
(d) Johnny.

10. What is like "stain on a sponge"?
(a) The creeping night.
(b) Dryness of the skin.
(c) The light on the porch.
(d) Water spilled onto the porch.

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

12. What attacks William so that he coats his body with muck?
(a) Gnats.
(b) Wasps
(c) Mosquitos.
(d) Flies.

13. Who is best man at Abigail's wedding to Gregory Mason?
(a) Calvin Robertson.
(b) Rufus Matthews.
(c) Howland Campbell.
(d) Harry Armstrong.

14. Whose shrieking does Abigail miss in the first Book of Abigail?
(a) Her children.
(b) Two whipporwills.
(c) Her ex-husband.
(d) The townspeople.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is William when he thinks that he is old?

2. What river is referred to at the beginning of the book?

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

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

5. What is William's first step in the adventure of going into the swamp?

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