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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Amen Corner (pgs. 270-276).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Pearl and Toby NOT do while waiting in the car for Dwight and Rosemary?
(a) Try to drive each other crazy.
(b) Sing the words to American Bandstand.
(c) Tell stories.
(d) Listen to the radio.

2. What does the contrast between the piano's black keys and the rest of Dwight's house symbolize?
(a) The family's "new beginning" is tainted.
(b) Life is never perfect.
(c) There are only slight imperfections in Dwight and Rosemary's relationship.
(d) The house is dirty.

3. What does Toby think is funny while at the tailor?
(a) So much care is being put into making Toby look the part.
(b) He is given so many clothes.
(c) The Howards think he is deserving of what they're giving him.
(d) The tailor calls him Mr. Wolff with a straight face.

4. What happens when Toby gets angry with his children?
(a) He doesn't make them think he doesn't love them.
(b) He hears Dwight's voice.
(c) He tries to discipline them properly.
(d) He remembers Dwight's anger.

5. What does Toby's mother believe she will get a job doing in Utah?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Mining uranium.
(c) Managing a hotel.
(d) Waitressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Toby takes Dwight's guns?

2. Why doesn't Toby engage the easy girls his friends find for him?

3. What is Toby's mother's name?

4. When Dwight takes Pearl with him to Seattle, he says he wants to see Norma. Pearl knows that:

5. What happens when Mr. Welsh refuses Toby's help on the farm?

(see the answer key)

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