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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tale 3, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sounds like "jug-a-rum"?
(a) The fog horn on the river.
(b) A large bullfrog.
(c) The way Leland blows into a bottle.
(d) The steam whistle in the fog.

2. About what does Polly complain to her mother the next morning?
(a) Having to eat cold oatmeal.
(b) Leland and Lenora.
(c) A headache.
(d) Having to eat burned toast.

3. What does Rowena take Henry for breakfast?
(a) A donut.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A plate of eggs and bacon.
(d) A plate of beans and ham.

4. What do Adam and his father do with the excess water?
(a) Put it in tanks.
(b) Let it lie in the pond.
(c) Channel it away from the fields.
(d) They do not know what to do.

5. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They are all watered.
(b) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(c) They burn.
(d) They are dry and cracked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Leland and Lenora label as snobby?

2. Why does Rowena fetch a horse blanket?

3. What does Adam happily contemplate as he goes to sleep?

4. What does Polly notice about the card after she makes her wish?

5. What does Polly's mother do when Polly gets home?

(see the answer key)

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