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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Who Owns Cross Creek?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Rawlings's cow?
(a) Ethel.
(b) Maude.
(c) Dora.
(d) Gladys.

2. Which of the following insects did Rawlings believe was the biggest annoyance?
(a) Aphids.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Junebugs.
(d) Ants.

3. How did Rawlings feel about her black neighbors in Cross Creek?
(a) She was apathetic to them.
(b) She cared for them.
(c) She avoided them.
(d) She feared them.

4. What day of the week did Rawlings's servants typically take off from work?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

5. What was the name of Rawlings's dog that was sent back to the city after failing miserably at farm life?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) Dinghy.
(c) Dredge.
(d) Dodo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following stereotypes was NOT one Rawlings exposed in her discussions of her servants?

2. What was Rawlings's grandfather's outhouse lined with photographs of?

3. How did Rawlings feel when Cross Creek was nearly overrun with frogs?

4. Which of Martha's relatives did Samson marry?

5. At the end of the memoir, what were thieves raiding Cross Creek, stealing?

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