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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does William first see evidence of Margaret's work?
(a) Windows.
(b) Kitchen.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Laundry.

2. Where does Margaret wash the clothes?
(a) In a washing machine in town.
(b) In the water near the baptistry.
(c) In well water.
(d) In the river.

3. As a girl, where does Margaret go on winter mornings?
(a) Hollow tree trunk.
(b) Stays in bed.
(c) By the stove.
(d) Swamp.

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

5. What does Margaret give to Little Matthew?
(a) A piggy back ride.
(b) Her hat.
(c) A snakeskin.
(d) A persimmon.

6. When does Abigail tell her grandfather that she's getting married?
(a) After the spring semester.
(b) Immediately before spring finals.
(c) During the Easter holiday.
(d) One weekend in March.

7. What do people clean muddy shoes on at the Howland home?
(a) Cleans them in the river.
(b) Uses a stick to get the mud out.
(c) Boot scraper shaped like two rabbits.
(d) Rinses off with well water.

8. With whom does Abigail drive off after her near drowning?
(a) She drives off alone.
(b) Her roommate.
(c) Tom Stanley.
(d) John Tolliver.

9. Why is Abigail expelled from college?
(a) She attends an elopement.
(b) Poor grades.
(c) Not checking in for curfew.
(d) Drinking alcohol.

10. Where does Abigail go on vacation after graduating from high school?
(a) Europe.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) The West.

11. What does Margaret do with the fruit she finds in the woods around the Howland home?
(a) Makes pies with it.
(b) Turns it into preserves.
(c) Feeds it to the hogs.
(d) Eats it.

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

13. Who tells Abigail that she's not "beholden" to the Howland home?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Her father.
(d) John Tolliver.

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

15. According to Abigail, in what animal is her grandfather most interested?
(a) Horses.
(b) Hounds.
(c) Cows.
(d) Pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the road crews discover when they blast through McCarren Hill?

2. Where does Margaret see her grandmother's spirit immediately after the funeral?

3. Who is Abigail referring to when she says, "He was as courtly as a planter out of a novel"?

4. Where is John stationed during the Korean war?

5. What rolls down the road when the moon is small, according to Margaret?

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