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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 book is cited with the description of the inner workings of a clock in Chapter 4?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea.
(b) The Reasonable Horologist.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The Time of Finding Time.

2. When is the autograph dated in the novel that Howard receives as a gift from the hermit in Chapter 1?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1911.

3. What is the name of George's sister that runs shrieking into the house whenever she sees wasps or spiders when they are young?
(a) Claire.
(b) Betsy.
(c) Marjorie.
(d) Darla.

4. How is Marjorie related to George?
(a) Marjorie is George's sister.
(b) Marjorie is George's daughter.
(c) Marjorie is George's niece.
(d) Marjorie is George's granddaughter.

5. What does Howard witness a fish do as he sits in the pond watching the Indian in Chapter 3?
(a) A fish leaps onto land and walks away.
(b) A fish transforms into an ostrich.
(c) A fish jumps down the Indian's throat.
(d) A fish leaps from the water and flies away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it every year when Howard meets with the hermit in Chapter 1?

2. As Howard stands in the silt of the pond outlet in the woods in Chapter 3, the narrator describes the sticks and branches on the pond bed as feeling like what to him?

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

4. Howard says of his father in Chapter 3, "The world fell away from my father the way he fell away from us. We became" what?

5. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to a didactic story which illustrates instructive lessons or principles?

(see the answer key)

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