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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Joining, and The Rifle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mesinger family do in the early evening of Christmas Eve, 1993?
(a) They walk the neighborhood looking at Christmas decorations
(b) They play "sub-for-Santa" with the Kline family
(c) They go snow sledding
(d) They sit down to a huge dinner of goose

2. What is Harv Kline's favorite time of year?
(a) Spring
(b) The Christmas season
(c) The hunting season
(d) Just after tax season

3. Although he buys and sells guns constantly, Tim Harrow never has fewer than how many guns?
(a) Twenty-five or thirty
(b) Two
(c) Two or three hundred
(d) One rifle, one pistol, and one shotgun

4. How does Richard Allen Mesington refer to the first bear he sees as an infant?
(a) "Daddy!" (p. 73)
(b) "[B]ughoe" (p. 73)
(c) "[B]iiig dog" (p. 73)
(d) "B... b... b..." (p. 73)

5. What type of rifle is Cornish McManus's "sweet" rifle?
(a) A flintlock
(b) A snaphaunce
(c) A matchlock
(d) A wheel lock

Short Answer Questions

1. When the "sweet" rifle is first sold in 1993 as "just a piece of junk" (p. 52) how much does it sell for?

2. Tim Harrow is enthralled with what hobby?

3. How old is Richard Allen Mesington when he has his first crush on Peggy?

4. According to the novel, what is the curve of a bullet's nose called?

5. Who is Richard Allen Mesington's first girlfriend?

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