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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems ironic about Aggie in the coffin?
(a) She is clean and beautiful.
(b) She looks like an angel from God.
(c) She looks very intelligent.
(d) It doesn't look like she is dead.

2. What amazes Jonathan about Katy and Haskell?
(a) That Haskell does not drink around Katy.
(b) That they look so much alike.
(c) That Katy normally does not allow anyone but Jonathan near her or to help her.
(d) That Katy has a calming influence on Haskell.

3. What does Katy seem to find soothing?
(a) Going to the church and praying for hours a day.
(b) Her husband's voice telling her everything is alright.
(c) Julie has not met Katy again since the first dinner.
(d) The calm demeanor of Uncle Haskell.

4. The next day, what does Aunt Cordelia show Julie?
(a) An old photograph of herself.
(b) A newborn litter of puppies.
(c) A newborn lamb.
(d) A picture of Jonathan and herself.

5. What is one of Aunt Cordelia's greatest challenges as a schoolteacher?
(a) To get the other children to like Annie Kilpin.
(b) How to help Annie Kilpin slow down her writing to make it legible.
(c) To treat all students fairly.
(d) How to help a retarded student, Annie Kilpin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the aunt's response?

2. What does Julie secretly think?

3. What does Katy tell Jonathan?

4. After Katy's trauma in the woods where Haskell rescues her, what occurs between Katy and Haskell?

5. How does Cordelia's father squelch rumors about Jonathan and Cordelia when she is tutoring him?

(see the answer key)

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