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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 are some of the items that adorn the Bumpus' yard?
(a) License plates, tire pumps, and old batteries.
(b) Abstract art sculptures and rain barrels.
(c) Plastic alligators and chipped gnomes.
(d) Fountains, flowers, and chipped pottery.

2. What happens during the Old Man's favorite ride at the fair?
(a) Randy throws up all over his brother and father.
(b) The Old Man loses his glasses, which fall and shatter.
(c) The narrator cries and screams the entire ride.
(d) The ride breaks down and they're stuck upside down for forty minutes.

3. The narrator lives in Northern Indiana with whom?
(a) Parents and grandmother.
(b) Parents and uncle.
(c) Father, mother, and brother.
(d) Father, mother, and sister.

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

5. What is the little wooden house with the moon on the door found in the Bumpus' yard?
(a) Gun storage shed.
(b) Dog house.
(c) Moonshine making station.
(d) Guest room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are NOT found in the Bumpus' yard?

2. What happens when Grover Dill insults Delbert Bumpus' name?

3. When Mother prepares the ham, she tops it with what?

4. Who successfully rings the bell at the County Fair strong man exhibit?

5. Among the animals at the fair, the Shepherds see what?

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