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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Elizabeth use the "feeble flame of life that remains in her body" to get out of bed and creep toward George's bedroom one July evening?
(a) She knows Tom is trying to get him a job.
(b) She has a bad dream.
(c) She hears noises come out of his room.
(d) George does not visit her for several days.

2. How old is Wing at the end of this story?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

3. How are the doctor's knuckles described?
(a) Mysteriously bumpy.
(b) Horribly placed.
(c) Extraordinarily large.
(d) Strangely twisted.

4. What does the writer think about as he lies in his bed?
(a) Having a baby.
(b) A way to quit smoking.
(c) The people he knows.
(d) His shopping list.

5. Who is Wing's only friend?
(a) Adolph Myers.
(b) George Willard.
(c) The old man.
(d) Tom Willard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the tall, dark girl in one of her dreams?

2. What is the name of Tom and Elizabeth's hotel?

3. What does Henry Bradford do to Wing one afternoon at the schoolhouse?

4. What is one of George's habits?

5. What war is the carpenter part of?

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