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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book of Abigail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is squirming "helplessly on the boards" of the porch?
(a) A bird with a broken wing.
(b) Beetles.
(c) A mouse.
(d) Abigail.

2. What is like "stain on a sponge"?
(a) Dryness of the skin.
(b) The light on the porch.
(c) Water spilled onto the porch.
(d) The creeping night.

3. Who has fallen into a weaving of invisible threads at the beginning of the book?
(a) William.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Robert.

4. What does Abigail see in place of the fence?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Wood for a new fence.
(c) Cherokee rose branches.
(d) Rope.

5. Why doesn't Abigail want to replace the fence?
(a) She wants to remember.
(b) She has no one to do the work.
(c) She has no money.
(d) It is more practical to keep it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what direction has the sun set at the beginning of "The Keepers of the House"?

2. What are the names of Margaret's children?

3. From whose viewpoint is the first Book of Abigail written.

4. Which one of Margaret's children has Abigail recently seen in the first chapter?

5. How many people are among the "parade of figures" that Abigail sees in her mind?

(see the answer key)

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