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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Eliza's rooming house?
(a) Dixieland
(b) Tara
(c) Southland
(d) Altamont

2. What would best describe Eliza's business interests?
(a) The roominghouse is not making money
(b) She is not a very good business person
(c) Eliza is doing well but her brother Will is not
(d) They are doing very well

3. Who does Helen and Luke live with at this stage in the book (Part 2, Chapter 19)?
(a) Eliza Gant
(b) Steve Gant
(c) Oliver Gant
(d) Eugene Gant

4. Who does Ben fight in this chapter?
(a) Steve
(b) Eugene
(c) Oliver
(d) Luke

5. In Chapter 23 where does Eliza go?
(a) To New Orleans
(b) To Florida
(c) To the World's Fair
(d) To South Carolina

6. In Part 2, Chapter 18 where does Steve live?
(a) Indiana
(b) Dixieland
(c) South Carolina
(d) New Orleans

7. Who is the woman from South Carolina who comes to Altamont to stay during the summer and lives at the rooming house?
(a) Mrs. Osbourne
(b) Mrs. Guant
(c) Mrs. Pentland
(d) Mrs. Selbourne

8. Who is the dominant force in the Gant home?
(a) Helen
(b) Eugene
(c) Steve
(d) Oliver

9. What else has Eugene memorized?
(a) The peridoic table of chemicals
(b) Many English poems
(c) Many French poems
(d) The Declaration of Independence

10. What does Oliver threaten to do to Eliza?
(a) Have her arrested
(b) Leave her
(c) Send back to her family
(d) Kill her

11. What disease does Oliver Gant have?
(a) Prostate cancer
(b) Crone's disease
(c) Heart failure
(d) Brights disease

12. In this chapter what problem is Gant obviously still battling?
(a) Arthritis
(b) Alcoholism
(c) Prostate cancer
(d) Brights disease

13. Why does Ben want to go to Canada to join the war?
(a) He is sick and the Army won't accept him
(b) He was born in Canada
(c) The US is not yet in the War
(d) He is not old enough

14. What is the name of the town where Gant eventually settles?
(a) Altamont
(b) Sidney
(c) Baltimore
(d) Raliegh

15. How would you discribe Oliver's relationship with Eugene?
(a) He will not speak to him
(b) He loves him
(c) He dislikes him
(d) He doesn't really know him

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you describe Eugene as a student?

2. What is the name of the school that Eugene begins attending in this chapter?

3. What happens to Eugene's parents in this chapter (Part 1, Chapter 11)?

4. Who is haveing a baby in this chapter?

5. What sibling is Eugene especially close to?

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