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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose barouche ran away and crashed, according to Polly in Chapter 2?
(a) Pete Petrofaccio's.
(b) Pardon Crandall's.
(c) Samuel Wilbeforce's.
(d) Mark Nailburne's.

2. Who is the contractor assessing Willa's house in Chapter 1?
(a) Pete Petrofaccio.
(b) Pardon Crandall.
(c) Samuel Wilbeforce.
(d) Louise Dunwiddie.

3. What is the name of the cook in the Greenwood household in Chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Smith.
(b) Mrs. Cooke.
(c) Mrs. Duncan.
(d) Mrs. Brindle.

4. When she was in eighth grade, Willa argued with her teacher that Cat Stevens was the modern-day equivalent of what poet?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Walt Whitman.

5. How much older than Rose is Thatcher?
(a) 7 years older.
(b) 10 years older.
(c) 5 years older.
(d) 12 years older.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Treat's first name?

2. What is the unfortunate news that Thatcher shares with Rose in Chapter 2?

3. Where do Mary and Thatcher exit the train "into a hive of overalled workers" in the opening of Chapter 8 (181)?

4. During what month do Mary and Thatcher take their trip to the Pine Barrens in Chapter 8?

5. What literary device is found in the following sentence from Chapter 8? "The boots' brown tongues lolled, a pair of panting dogs" (183).

(see the answer key)

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