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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adam dig for his mother's garden?
(a) Holes for her to plant daffodils.
(b) Holes for fence posts.
(c) Holes for her to plant dahlias.
(d) Rows and mounds.

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

3. How does Polly's mother become while trying to understand Polly?
(a) Angry.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Exasperated.
(d) Entertained.

4. From what point of view is this tale written?
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Second.
(d) None.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does it seem Polly croaks?

2. What is Stew Meat about to do at the opening to the Epilogue?

3. About what does Henry talk to Mr. Jervis?

4. How is Rowena described?

5. What happens when Adam and Pa load the cookstove to take it away from the valley?

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