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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Mama's storytelling worse than normal in Chapter 3?
(a) Her stories are boring.
(b) She never tells an ending to her stories.
(c) She keeps leaving parts out.
(d) She tells her stories in Norwegian.

2. Why does Mama clear out the front room?
(a) To make room since the aunts visit.
(b) To give Nels his own room.
(c) To redecorate the room.
(d) To make room for a renter.

3. What does the narrator try to give Mama at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) A check.
(b) Her novel.
(c) Cash.
(d) A necklace.

4. This event causes finances to be low at the beginning of Chapter 2.
(a) Nels is arrested.
(b) The strike.
(c) Papa leaves the family.
(d) Christine becomes ill.

5. Why does this child need to have an operation?
(a) A broken arm.
(b) An ear infection.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) A gunshot wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mama prefer to clean floors?

2. What does Nels do the night the boys get into trouble for breaking into a store?

3. How does Uncle Chris make his money?

4. What does Mr. Hyde leave for the children?

5. How does Mama finally sneak in to see her child at the hospital?

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