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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Story 7, The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll Summary:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The night before the County Fair, the Old Man says he doesn't care if Mother checks out the quilts and raspberry jams so long as he and the narrator can do what?
(a) Watch the first heat of the dirt track races.
(b) Ride the "Lightning Strike" roller coaster.
(c) Eat hot dogs, cotton candy, and funnel cakes.
(d) Watch the parade.

2. During the family's road trip to Michigan, why does Mother suddenly insist that the Old Man stop the car?
(a) She needs to check on the narrator, who looks overheated and dehydrated.
(b) They haven't had a bathroom stop in six hours.
(c) She knows Randy is about to throw up.
(d) The contents of the car have shifted and she's getting squished by supplies.

3. What is the Old Man's greatest nemesis?
(a) Bumpus hounds.
(b) Scut Farkas.
(c) His old Pontiac.
(d) The radiator in his house.

4. During Spring semester in Biology II class, Daphne is what?
(a) Showing romantic interest in the narrator.
(b) Assigned to be the narrator's lab partner.
(c) Absent for three weeks.
(d) Assigned to tutor the narrator in class.

5. The night of his first date with the neighbor girl, how long does it take the narrator to bathe and groom?
(a) Three and a half hours.
(b) Just under two hours.
(c) An hour.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator visits a museum as an adult, what special item does he find?

2. What is the Mariah?

3. How does the narrator's childhood experience at the County Fair compare to a movie he watches when he's an adult that portrays a State Fair set in Indiana?

4. In the community, who is Maxwell Bigelow, Daphne's father?

5. The narrator, as an adult, owns some fine furniture and has a what?

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