View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Call lie about during their visit to the store in Chapter 4?
(a) How much money they have.
(b) Romey's age.
(c) Her father's health.
(d) What they need at home.

2. Who has a witch's keyhole in his chimney?
(a) Mr. Connell.
(b) Kiser Pease.
(c) Roy Luther.
(d) The traveler.

3. What idea do the children come up with after their father's death to keep people away?
(a) To live in the woods.
(b) To tell them their father is sleeping.
(c) To run away.
(d) To put up a sign that says "Mad Dog" or "Small Pox."

4. Who is the owner of the general store?
(a) Mrs. Connell.
(b) Mr. Connell.
(c) Cosby Luther.
(d) Kiser Pease.

5. In Chapter 7, Mary Call contemplates what for the first time in the novel?
(a) Selling the house.
(b) Marrying Kiser Pease.
(c) Telling someone her father is dead.
(d) Leaving her siblings to the county and leaving.

6. Who gets caught in the rain and takes shelter on Kiser's porch?
(a) Ima Dean and Devola.
(b) Romey and Mary.
(c) Romey and Devola.
(d) Devola and Mary.

7. Romey says what about the burial on the way back home?
(a) Mary Call made the wrong choice.
(b) It was not ever going to be good enough.
(c) The burial made him angry.
(d) That he thinks it was decent.

8. What happens when Mary Call wraps Kiser in the onions?
(a) He gets sad.
(b) He begins to sweat.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He begins to cry.

9. What do they say to their father's body before they leave?
(a) They tell him the kids are there.
(b) They tell him not to worry about them.
(c) They say he was always light-hearted.
(d) They say he should not have been so proud.

10. What is one thing that is dangerous about the mountains during wildcrafting?
(a) Other wildcrafters.
(b) The large animals.
(c) The terrain.
(d) The poisonous flowers.

11. Who brings over a car to the Luther household?
(a) Mrs. Connell.
(b) Mr. Connell.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Kiser Pease.

12. What is the name of Cosby Luther's book that Mary Call goes to find in Chapter 3?
(a) Cosby Luther's Guide to Wildcrafting.
(b) Wildcrafting: A Guide.
(c) A Guide to Wildcrafting.
(d) Wildcrafting.

13. Who died years before the novel begins?
(a) Kiser Pease.
(b) Devola Luther.
(c) Kiser Pease's mother.
(d) Mary Call's mother.

14. How long does Kiser tell Mary Call they can stay on without charge?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Through the winter.
(c) Through the summer.
(d) One year.

15. Which character is on their deathbed?
(a) Mary Call Luther.
(b) Devola Luther.
(c) Roy Luther.
(d) Kiser Pease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Romey's response to Mrs. Connell's description of her childhood?

2. Who at the store looks down on the Luthers and does not like them?

3. What are the conditions outside when Roy Luther is taken up to the mountain to be buried?

4. Who blatantly argues with Mrs. Connell during this store visit in Chapter 4?

5. Where does Mary Call find Cosby Luther's book?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 524 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample