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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 word from Chapter 3 means characterized by length of speech or wordiness, or scattered?
(a) Diffuse.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Coercive.

2. What month is it when Howard describes his mother helping his father dress before his father is taken away in Chapter 3?
(a) March.
(b) September.
(c) January.
(d) April.

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

4. 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.

5. The one occurrence when George witnesses one of his father's grand mal seizures is during Christmas dinner in what year?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name has Joe given to the bearskin rug in the Crosby home?

2. What kind of wood was Howard's father's canoe made from that he recalls in Chapter 3?

3. Why is Howard paid to shoot a dog, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. The hermit whose tooth Howard pulls is described in Chapter 1 as living in the woods by what river?

5. What is the "eighth planet, named after the king of the sea"?

(see the answer key)

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