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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game does Danny O'Keefe call to ask Frank and Jake to come over and play?
(a) Clue.
(b) Operation.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) Risk.

2. What prompts Ruth to bring food to the Klements' house?
(a) Travis Klement is rumored to be ill.
(b) She feels guilty for the way she has been treating Ruth as of late.
(c) Peter Klement tells Ruth he goes hungry much of the time.
(d) Amelia Klement does not show up to church.

3. What reason does Frank give for thinking his father might be disappointed to find Frank and Jake reading comic books?
(a) Because he thinks his father wishes they were reading the set of encyclopedias in which he invested.
(b) Because he thinks his father sees comic books as a waste of the boys' earned money.
(c) Because he thinks his father disapproves of the content in comic books.
(d) Because he thinks his father wishes they were doing homework instead.

4. Who stays with Lise at her house while Emil is in the hospital?
(a) Frank and Ruth.
(b) Jake and Ariel.
(c) Jake and Frank.
(d) Julia and Axel.

5. What does Ruth believe is the true cause of Ariel's change of heart regarding Juilliard?
(a) Ariel's fear of failure.
(b) Ariel's admiration of Emil Brandt.
(c) Ariel's fear of severe homesickness.
(d) Ariel's relationship with Karl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jake want Frank to answer people's questions about the incident with Emil instead of answering himself?

2. With whom does Frank sit at the Cadbury church service when Jake stays home sick?

3. When Father Peter tells Nathan the reasons for the townspeople's negative feelings about Ruth's role as the minister's wife, what three reasons does he give?

4. When Ruth gets angry at Julia's words, what physical attribute does Ruth mention in order to insult Julia?

5. Who touches Lise and sends her into a screaming fit after Emil attempted suicide?

(see the answer key)

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