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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Odor of Verbena: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ringo asks Bayard who he thinks Granny dreamed about. Bayard says ______.
(a) A stranger.
(b) Loosh.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His father.

2. Where do Bayard and Ringo hear Ab has gone?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Vicksburg.
(d) Montana.

3. What is Drusilla meant to represent?
(a) The effects of war.
(b) The ruthlessness of humanity.
(c) The fight to survive.
(d) The changing norm of women.

4. How did Bayard's mother die?
(a) In childbirth.
(b) It's still a mystery.
(c) A farming accident.
(d) In the war.

5. What does Bayard see in Ab's eyes when he talks to him?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Joy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bayard studying in college?

2. Why isn't Uncle Buck fighting in the army?

3. Why did the stranger kill the black man for the boys to find?

4. Bayard observes that although the war is tragic, he has never experiences such ______.

5. While camping, a _______ stranger arrives.

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