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

2. How does the Old Man feel about the farming exhibits at the County Fair?
(a) He really enjoys the dairy and corn exhibits.
(b) He doesn't think they should skip any.
(c) He couldn't care less about them.
(d) He thinks his sons should see the exhibits.

3. Because of the crowds, how far away from the County Fair does the narrator say his father has to park?
(a) Six blocks.
(b) About four miles.
(c) In Chicago.
(d) Two towns over.

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

5. How does the narrator's childhood experience at the County Fair compare to a movie he watches when he's an adult that portrays a State Fair set in Indiana?
(a) The food's exactly the same, but he remembers wilder rides.
(b) The County Fair wasn't as exciting as the State Fair in the movie.
(c) His experience is completely different from the movie.
(d) His experience is identical to the movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once the family arrives at the County Fair, the narrator accompanies his father where?

2. What is the name of the Indiana town where most of the stories in the book supposedly take place?

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

4. The night before the County Fair, the Old Man says he doesn't care if Mother checks out the quilts and raspberry jams so long as he and the narrator can do what?

5. What subject does Miss Shields teach?

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