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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nick do at sunrise the next morning?
(a) Goes into town to buy bait
(b) Watches a bass jumping in the lake
(c) Packs the car to return home
(d) Cooks breakfast over the fire

2. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
(a) Kindling
(b) Stolen property
(c) Zeus' toothpicks
(d) A nuisance

3. What is a woman doing on a cart?
(a) Polishing a gun
(b) Singing
(c) Giving birth
(d) Holding a suitcase

4. What does Boulton call Nick's father?
(a) Bud
(b) Dude
(c) Sport
(d) Doc

5. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Paint his house
(b) Plant some new trees
(c) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property
(d) Till a new garden

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nature of the problem with which Nick's father can assist?

2. What is Nick's father's profession?

3. What is the attitude of the narrator telling the story?

4. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?

5. What do the Greek soldiers do to their mules after they break the front legs of the animals?

(see the answer key)

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