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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Part 2 (pages 143-156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of George's two daughters?
(a) Kathleen and Emily.
(b) Mary and Anna.
(c) Wilma and Grace.
(d) Claire and Betsy.

2. What kind of wood was Howard's father's canoe made from that he recalls in Chapter 3?
(a) Pine.
(b) Birch.
(c) Ash.
(d) Willow.

3. Who does the narrator describe as having gone mad and lit his house on fire, killing himself and a woman with two children, in Chapter 2?
(a) Kenner Davenport.
(b) Ray Morell.
(c) Tom Budden.
(d) Dan Cooper.

4. The narrator says in Chapter 3 as Howard searches the woods for his father, "The tom-tom tap of a pileated woodpecker sounded from somewhere in the woods, to Howard's left." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

5. Who does Howard describe paddling a canoe through the woods behind his family's house just before his father is taken away in Chapter 3?
(a) Old Red.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Old Sabbatis.
(d) Sam.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Howard stands outside of his house, watching his children in the window in Chapter 2, he thinks, "I will pay my debts with" what?

2. What animals circle Howard's cart in the field before moving on in the end of Chapter 2?

3. What color is Kathleen's hair described as in Chapter 2?

4. The narrator says of Howard in Chapter 2, "He resented his resentment because it was a sign of" what?

5. The drowned child that Howard fishes from a creek is the daughter of what widow?

(see the answer key)

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