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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Part 1 (pages 157-176).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Howard's father's profession?
(a) He is a doctor.
(b) He is a reverend.
(c) He is a senator.
(d) He is a policeman.

2. Of Kathleen's strict demeanor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "She could not live with herself if she allowed herself to believe that she treated her own this way because she felt no more connected to them than she would to" what?
(a) A pile of dirt.
(b) A collection of stones.
(c) A Christmas goose.
(d) A pet dog.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 4, "The escapement on a clock consists of a collar on a pinion, called" what?
(a) A nucleus.
(b) An electron.
(c) A pallet.
(d) A privet.

4. Howard says the following in Chapter 3: "My mother opened the outside door and the light came in and carved every object in the kitchen into an ancient relic." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Personification.

5. What ailment has Marjorie suffered from all of her life?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Manic depression.
(d) Asthma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What three states does the narrator say George's grandchildren are visiting from in the beginning of the novel?

2. Who built George's house?

3. What does George's mother serve for Christmas dinner on the night that George witnesses his father's seizure?

4. What word used in Chapter 3 means concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of something?

5. What kind of liquor does Howard keep a few bottles of in his secret drawer as a tradesman?

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