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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Story Two, County Fair!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Indiana town where most of the stories in the book supposedly take place?
(a) Longview.
(b) DeBerne.
(c) Hohman.
(d) Frankton.

2. What marks the start of the Shepherd-Bumpus feud?
(a) Blaring country music is played every night.
(b) The ham is taken by the hounds.
(c) Mr. Bumpus rams his truck into the Old Man's porch.
(d) The Old Man calls the Bumpus family country hicks.

3. What does the Old Man say every year when he and his family leave the County Fair?
(a) The fair has taken every dollar he had.
(b) The fair seems to get better each year.
(c) He teases the boys about walking home from the fair.
(d) He ate way too much.

4. What is the name of the school the narrator attends?
(a) James K. Polk.
(b) Chester A. Arthur.
(c) Warren G. Harding.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

5. The Taylors, who lived next door to the narrator and his family for many years before the Bumpus family moved in, were what?
(a) Educators.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Circus performers.
(d) Eccentric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the little wooden house with the moon on the door found in the Bumpus' yard?

2. What does the Old Man do trying to get a glimpse of the new family that moves in next door?

3. According to the book, important industries of Northern Indiana are steel mills and what else?

4. The narrator and his family eat practically the same thing every day, except on what occasion?

5. The Old Man is loyal to the Oldsmobile, but he deviates from his dedication to drive what automobile brand?

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