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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Spelling Bee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alvin say that angered Horace?
(a) None of these.
(b) That Peggy might have been jealous of the infant.
(c) That Peggy might have ran off with a boy.
(d) That Peggy ran off to seek her fortune elsewhere.

2. What did Alvin think when he 'saw' the fresh corpse beneath the soil?
(a) That someone was mad at the fresh body beneath the earth.
(b) That the torch girl was buried there.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

3. Who does Arthur say picked him up and flew with him?
(a) A big old blackbird.
(b) His momma.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His uncle.

4. What act opened Alvin wide for the Unmaker to enter him?
(a) All of these.
(b) Laying down.
(c) Digging the second well.
(d) Sleeping.

5. How did Peggy feel she spoke?
(a) Squawking like a crow.
(b) Squawking like a chicken.
(c) Screeching like an door that hadn't been oiled in a fortnight.
(d) Squawking like a seagull.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mistress Modesty imagine when she thought of Peggy's pain?

2. What song did Redbird begin to sing that was different from Redman's song?

3. What was held out to Peggy?

4. Why did Alvin give his boots away?

5. Why can't Peggy send the Unmaker away?

(see the answer key)

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