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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Amos bring everyone to the hayloft barn?
(a) Because racist townsfolk are threatening the Wingo servants.
(b) Because robbers have broken into the house.
(c) Because the storm begins to flood the house.
(d) Because Amos wants to have a prayer meeting.

2. Who is Sarah Jenkins?
(a) One of Grandfather Amos' servants.
(b) A neighbor of the Wingos'.
(c) Lila Wingo's sister-in-law.
(d) An eighty-five-year-old black midwife.

3. What is it about Henry Wingo that is difficult for Tom to reconcile?
(a) He does not know why his father loved Luke more than Tom.
(b) He does not think his father taught him anything growing up.
(c) He cannot understand how Tolitha and Amos created such a dangerous man.
(d) He does not see how the war made his father such an emotional person.

4. What does Tom's wife blurt out to elicit an emotional response from Tom as they walk along the beach in Chapter One?
(a) She confesses she is having an affair.
(b) She chastises Tom for being a horrible provider.
(c) She begs Tom to spend more time with the children.
(d) She tells Tom that she never loved him.

5. What does Tom say that Grandmother Tolitha did immediately following Papa John's death?
(a) She became a religious fanatic.
(b) She traveled the world until her money ran out.
(c) She went back to Grandpa Wingo.
(d) She moved into a nursing home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize Tom's initial behavior towards Dr. Lowenstein?

2. Where are Tom and Dr. Lowenstein at the start of Chapter Six?

3. Which family member does Tom admit to being the forbidden member of the Wingo clan?

4. Why does Henry light a candle at the statue of the Infant of Prague?

5. After the children are in bed, where do Tom and his wife go?

(see the answer key)

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