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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is surprising about the pie served when Rita comes to dinner?
(a) It was too hot.
(b) It was made with sugar beets.
(c) It was made with Swiss chard.
(d) It was too tart.

2. How is Septima described by the narrator?
(a) Scatterbrained.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Bossy.

3. Where does Rita hope to work after having her baby?
(a) A publisher.
(b) The college.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A newspaper.

4. Who interrupts Lizzy when she tries to buy something from Zepha?
(a) Violet.
(b) Rita.
(c) Queenie.
(d) Velma.

5. What does Rita learn during the book according to the narrator?
(a) How to be a wife.
(b) Small town ways.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should Velma not stay with her gentleman friend?

2. What does Mrs. Judd ask Queenie for after Rita's investigation at her house?

3. What is A Road to California?

4. What does the narrator say the story is about?

5. Who defends Hiawatha when Rita thinks he might be the killer?

(see the answer key)

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