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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 does George's mother serve for Christmas dinner on the night that George witnesses his father's seizure?
(a) Glazed ham.
(b) Roast beef.
(c) Roasted goose.
(d) Roast turkey.

2. How many hours before his death does the narrator in Chapter 1 say George sneaked "into the basement window of the West Cove Methodist Church" and rang the bell on Halloween night?
(a) 215 hours.
(b) 168 hours.
(c) 625 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

3. 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?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Bones.
(c) Stones.
(d) Engine parts.

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

5. The narrator says of Kathleen in Chapter 2, "Only her face is visible above the top of the bedcovers. It glows like a pale egg." What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does the narrator say Kathleen washes her hair in the winter in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the bootlegger that Howard sells five gallons of homemade whiskey for as an odd job?

3. Who is the author of The Reasonable Horologist that is quoted in Chapter 1?

4. What novel does Howard discover on his porch after pulling the hermit's tooth in Chapter 1?

5. Of his father and of the old Indian that repaired the canoe, Howard says in Chapter 3, "My memories of them are" what?

(see the answer key)

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