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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 118-120.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator's mother want when they could not get a taxi?
(a) Her husband to pick them up.
(b) A bus.
(c) Car with a chauffer.
(d) A limo.

2. What did the mother tell her daughter to do when summing someone up?
(a) Take her time.
(b) Have a conversation.
(c) Get references.
(d) Observe how they are dressed.

3. What did the old man want?
(a) Umbrella.
(b) Raincoat.
(c) Ride.
(d) Pound.

4. Who did mother think the man might have been?
(a) Sir David Bronzeworth.
(b) Sir Harry Goldsworthy.
(c) Sir Robert Silverton.
(d) Sir Philip Wigton.

5. When did the incident that the narrator describes happen?
(a) Yesterday morning.
(b) Two days ago.
(c) Yesterday evening.
(d) Three days ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator want to go when it started raining?

2. Why did the mother say that she never had a silk umbrella before?

3. What did the man do when he spoke to the narrator's mother?

4. How did the narrator describe a man that came up to her and her mother?

5. What did the narrator say that her mother looked like she might find when she cut the top off of boiled eggs.

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