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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does William admit being able to stand for his whole life, so he can manage a little more?
(a) Annie.
(b) Calvin Robertson.
(c) Rufus Matthews.
(d) Ramona.

3. What did William give his daughter as a homecoming surprise after her first year of college?
(a) A gazebo.
(b) A horse.
(c) A trip to Europe.
(d) A book of poetry.

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

5. What are the names of Margaret's children?
(a) Will, Marge, and Nina.
(b) Johnny, Marge,and Crissy.
(c) Robert, Lena, and Oliver.
(d) Robert, Nina, and Crissy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the river compared to in the first Book of Abigail?

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

3. In the first Book of Abigail, what month is it?

4. When did the forest fires take place in the Smokies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the still that William eventually finds.

2. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail remember of being a child in this house?

3. What does the narrator say in the first section that indicates that she might be lonely?

4. Explain the term Freejack.

5. What are Abigail's younger children doing as she stands on the porch?

6. What does Aimee Legendre Howland have a craving for, and how does she meet this craving?

7. What does the narrator mean when she says that the county will find out about her oldest daughters being sent away because "they always know everything"?

8. How is the content of "The Keepers of the House" organized?

9. Describe the Howland tomb and its eventual use.

10. In addition to the month being stated, what other clues about the season is the reader given in the first paragraph?

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