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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 disturbs Polly's sleep that night?
(a) Being afraid of going to school the next day.
(b) A sore throat.
(c) Hearing a voice in her head all night.
(d) The sound of hundreds of frogs outside her window.

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

3. How does Sam view Henry Piper?
(a) Charming.
(b) Witty.
(c) Pretentious and manipulative.
(d) Engaging.

4. What is in the pair of pants that Adam hangs in the closet?
(a) A pipe and tobacco.
(b) Blinn's card.
(c) A few coins.
(d) A wad of dollar bills.

5. Where does the narrator first encounter Thaddeus Blinn?
(a) At the pie eating contest.
(b) At a display booth.
(c) At the dunking booth.
(d) In the church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?

3. When does it seem Polly croaks?

4. What does the Prologue say that the stories say is important.

5. What do Leland and Lenora do for Polly?

(see the answer key)

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