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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. Who mentions that Abigail flounces out of the house?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Annie.
(c) Robert.
(d) William.

2. Who did Abigail's father quote after the World War II started in 1939?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Rupert Brooks.

3. Where does Margaret see her grandmother's spirit immediately after the funeral?
(a) Swamp.
(b) A grove of trees.
(c) Porch.
(d) Cemetery.

4. Three books are mentioned that Abigail receives for agreeing to pretend to be the sick child. They are The Swiss Family Robinson, Kidnapped, and ________________.
(a) Treasure Island.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Jo's Boys.
(d) Wizard of Oz.

5. Two African American children, six and seven years old, arrived at the Howland kitchen door on Sunday afternoon. What did everyone call these children?
(a) Bums.
(b) Drifters.
(c) Freejacks.
(d) Hobos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robert Stokes?

2. When does Abigail tell her grandfather that she's getting married?

3. How old is Margaret when she learns the story of her father?

4. How many children do William and Margaret have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Margaret find in the Howland woods that she brings back to the house?

2. What are death gifts, and what happens if you touch one?

3. What does Margaret's first bedroom at the Howland home look like?

4. How does Margaret behave after her children leave for boarding school?

5. How does Margaret know that spring has come in the Book of Margaret?

6. Describe Somerset County.

7. What does Margaret take with her when she moves from New Church to the Howland estate?

8. Describe the house that Margaret grows up in.

9. What is the story of the hoop snake?

10. Explain why the townspeople are angry at the grandfather for not bringing his daughter's body home for burial from Santa Fe?

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