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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 121-123.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the mother stand as she watched the old man move away?
(a) Indignantly.
(b) Still and stiff.
(c) Worriedly and frustrated.
(d) Angrily.

2. What was the room like where the mother and daughter saw the old man?
(a) Crowded and dirty.
(b) Busy and noisy.
(c) Grimy and smelly.
(d) Full of people and cigarette smoke.

3. What did the mother offer the man since it was such an expensive umbrella?
(a) 10 pounds.
(b) Taxi fare.
(c) 5 pounds.
(d) 2 pounds.

4. What did the girl ask her mother if the man was not on page 121?
(a) Duke.
(b) Baron.
(c) Aristocrat.
(d) Titled gentleman.

5. For how many years did the old man say that he would not take any more than a pound for the umbrella?
(a) Fifty.
(b) A hundred.
(c) A million.
(d) A thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the old man take a lick as if to get one more drop of his beverage?

2. What did the old man do when the mother gave him the money?

3. Why was the mother so horrible to the man in the beginning?

4. How much did the daughter say that the old man paid for the beverage?

5. Where did the mother and daughter go as they followed the man?

(see the answer key)

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