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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 does Abigail do immediately before watering?
(a) Turns on the porch light.
(b) Tells the children to wash for dinner.
(c) Puts on a sweater.
(d) Cries.

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

3. How does Abigail see Margaret's son carrying himself?
(a) As the young boy she grew up with.
(b) As if in fear.
(c) As if he owns the world.
(d) As an old man.

4. Whom does Abigail envision as saying, "just like a Howland"?
(a) The county.
(b) The servants.
(c) Margaret's children.
(d) Her ex-husband's family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What illusion does Abigail have in the first chapter?

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

3. What looks like a choppy sea to Abigail?

4. Whose shrieking does Abigail miss in the first Book of Abigail?

5. In the first chapter, how long has it been since Abigail has seen one of Margaret's children?

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