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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Abigail see in place of the fence?
(a) Wood for a new fence.
(b) Cherokee rose branches.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Rope.
2. Why are there no pictures of Lorena Adams Howland?
(a) William burned them one afternoon.
(b) They were lost over the years.
(c) Lorena refused to allow her picture to be taken.
(d) They burned in a house fire.
3. Where does William's daughter go to college?
(a) University of Montevallo in Alabama.
(b) Agnes Scott College in Georgia.
(c) H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in Louisiana.
(d) Mary Baldwin in Virginia.
4. What poetry does the elder Abigail enjoy reading out loud before she leaves for college?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Poe.
(d) Dickinson.
5. What is William's first step in the adventure of going into the swamp?
(a) He buys a skiff.
(b) He draws a map.
(c) He packs food.
(d) He cleans his guns.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did William give his daughter as a homecoming surprise after her first year of college?
2. Who has fallen into a weaving of invisible threads at the beginning of the book?
3. What illusion does Abigail have in the first chapter?
4. In the first Book of Abigail, what month is it?
5. Who says, "Not being pretty...it worries a girl"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say in the first section that indicates that she might be lonely?
2. Explain the term Freejack.
3. Why is the November evening so quiet and final?
4. What does the narrator mean when she says that the county will find out about her oldest daughters being sent away because "they always know everything"?
5. Describe Abigail, William's daughter, as a child.
6. Describe the Howland tomb and its eventual use.
7. Immediately after Lorena's death, what plants does William notice?
8. What memories does Abigail think of after she thinks the owl flies over the river?
9. What does Aimee Legendre Howland have a craving for, and how does she meet this craving?
10. What is Abigail's reasoning for watering the geraniums so late in the season?
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