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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who held up the train until the bear came down from the tree?
(a) Ash.
(b) Sam Fathers.
(c) Major deSpain.
(d) Ike.

2. What does Boon tell Ike belongs to Boon?
(a) The bucks.
(b) The bears.
(c) The squirrels.
(d) The does.

3. What does Boon hit when he misses while shooting at a black man?
(a) A black woman.
(b) A horse.
(c) A dog.
(d) A child.

4. What does the train symbolize now?
(a) The doomed wilderness.
(b) Evolution.
(c) History.
(d) Progress.

5. What is another reason Ike thinks Sam must be glad his life is almost over?
(a) He had to be a Negro for seventy years.
(b) He had lost an arm in the war.
(c) He had been a slave all his life.
(d) He was in pain all the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sent to get a doctor?

2. What does Ike do when he becomes lost in the wilderness?

3. Who does Ike think is the father of the slave girl's child?

4. Which person from the past do Ike and McCaslin talk about?

5. Who goes to town with Boon?

(see the answer key)

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