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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. In the first Book of Abigail, what month is it?
(a) February.
(b) November.
(c) December.
(d) September.
2. How many bedrooms does Annie count in the Howland home?
(a) 11.
(b) 22.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.
3. What is Lorena diagnosed with three days after giving birth to a son?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) The fever.
(d) Influenza.
4. Why doesn't Abigail want to replace the fence?
(a) It is more practical to keep it.
(b) She has no one to do the work.
(c) She wants to remember.
(d) She has no money.
5. In the first Book of Abigail, who avoids the porch light?
(a) Moths.
(b) A screech owl.
(c) Abigail.
(d) The cat.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who ran off to a ship at Savannah and disappeared?
2. What is squirming "helplessly on the boards" of the porch?
3. What are the names of Margaret's children?
4. What poetry does the elder Abigail enjoy reading out loud before she leaves for college?
5. Who is passed out in the corner after the groom's breakfast?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has survived the frost in the first section to Abigail's surprise and how?
2. What is the appearance of the front yard in the first section/chapter?
3. In addition to the month being stated, what other clues about the season is the reader given in the first paragraph?
4. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail remember of being a child in this house?
5. What does the narrator say in the first section that indicates that she might be lonely?
6. Describe the land that William Marshall Howland claims.
7. What is Abigail's reasoning for watering the geraniums so late in the season?
8. What are Abigail's younger children doing as she stands on the porch?
9. Describe Abigail, William's daughter, as a child.
10. What caused the "ugly smears" in the sky in October in the first section?
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