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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people call "the bones of the earth," according to the author?
(a) The trees of winter.
(b) The granite outcroppings in winter fields.
(c) A dry pond.
(d) A rock outcropping in a valley.

2. When William comes across a still, the whiskey is aging in ______________.
(a) Copper pot.
(b) Cedar kegs.
(c) Pine barrel.
(d) Oak kegs.

3. What is likker?
(a) A species of cotton.
(b) A medicinal plant.
(c) A type of hunting dog.
(d) Alcohol made in stills in the South.

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

5. What looks like a choppy sea to Abigail?
(a) The porch.
(b) The river.
(c) The front yard.
(d) The water inside the watering tin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is William when he thinks that he is old?

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

3. When Abigail was a child, who slept in the great tester bed in the south bedroom?

4. What is like "stain on a sponge"?

5. What attacks William so that he coats his body with muck?

(see the answer key)

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