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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in the Spring?
(a) Aunt Cordelia dies.
(b) Julie's father marries Alicia.
(c) Laura announces she is pregnant again.
(d) Uncle Haskell is confined to his bed.

2. What does Julie assume Aunt Cordelia feels?
(a) Happy that she will soon no longer be burdened with raising Julie.
(b) Excitement about having Julie for the summer months at least.
(c) Sadness about Jonathan.
(d) Sadness at the prospect of Julie leaving.

3. Why is the little school where Cordelia teaches being closed?
(a) So that the country children can have the benefit of an education in a city school.
(b) The building is not up to code.
(c) Because Cordelia wants to retire.
(d) There is not enough space for all the children.

4. What reason does Cordelia give for declining a teaching position in the school where the children will be going?
(a) She has to stay and care for her ill aunts.
(b) She wants to return to fulltime farming.
(c) She was planning to retire that year anyway.
(d) She is too set in her ways to adapt to the rules of a new school system.

5. What does Julie hear people whispering?
(a) That Uncle Haskell is in trouble with the law.
(b) That Aunt Cordelia is seeing Jonathan.
(c) That Julie's father is moving to the farm.
(d) That Julie is too much for Aunt Cordelia to handle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura's former bedroom overlook?

2. To what does Julie look forward?

3. What does Bill ask Julie to overlook about Laura during the visit?

4. About whom are rumors being said?

5. What makes Julie start thinking of staying with Aunt Cordelia?

(see the answer key)

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