Yonnondio: From the Thirties Quizzes

Yonnondio: From the Thirties Quiz 1

1 What wakes Mazie up every morning?
Her mother's voice

The mine whistle

Her dog

An alarm clock
2 How old is Mazie at the beginning of the book?
Eight

Five

Six

Seven
3 If the mine whistle sounds in the middle of the day, what does it mean?
A celebration or holiday

The arrival of the mine owner

The death of a mine worker

A lunch break
4 What does Mazie fear the coal of the mine will do to her?
Make her a mine worker

Give her coal poisoning

Make her black inside

Turn her into a black person
5 Why does Sheen McEvoy want to sacrifice Mazie to the mine?
He thinks she will fly out of the mine with his face

He resents Jim Holbrook

He thinks the mine, like all women, wants a child

He would rather see Mazie die than another man
6 How is Mazie saved?
The night watchman attacks McEvoy with a pickax

Her father shoots McEvoy with a pistol

She screams and the men in the saloon come to her rescue

She kicks him unexpectedly and manages to escape
7 What does Jim suggest after the attack on Mazie?
That the other children be locked up in the house

That he attacks McEvoy's family

That the family moves east to the farmlands

That Mazie be sent to live with her grandparents to recover
8 While Anna and Jim are discussing his suggestion, what does Mazie do?
Beats up her younger brother Will

Runs away

Faints

Laughs demonically
9 When the whistle goes off in the middle of the day, what has happened?
A terrible accident; many of the workers have been buried alive

The mine boss has just declared a worker's holiday

One of the workers has attacked and killed his supervisor

The mine boss has a layoff announcement
10 How long does Jim disappear after the incident?
Fifteen days

Less than 24 hours

Two months

Five days
11 What will happen to Andy Kvaternick?
He will die his first day in the mine

He will become a mine boss

He will go to college and become a teacher

He will suffer and become a drunk
12 When do the Holbrooks leave the mining town?
March

April

January

June
13 How does Jim get Nellie moving on the fourth day of their trip?
He uses the grass-on-the-end-of-a-stick trick

He has Mazie run in front of her to provoke a chase

He coaxes her with clucks of his tongue and lots of stroking

He whips her
14 For how long are the Holbrooks immobile after the storm?
Two nights

A week

Three days

A few hours
15 Anna has a strange, unexplained memory of a religious ceremony: which religion?
Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

Christianity
16 What is Benson's warning to the Holbrooks?
That Caldwell is a bad man

That mules are better than horses

That it is impossible to make a living as a tenant farmer

That the farm boss is corrupt and impossible
17 The Holbrooks learn about a new tradition when they arrive on the farm. What is it?
A big summer dance held in their barn

The Day of the Dead

A harvest party

A holiday every two months
18 What do Caldwell and Mazie talk about during their first meeting?
The presidential race

The stars and the universe

The American Dream

The idea of building a college nearby
19 What is the jist of Caldwell's deathbed wisdom for Mazie?
That she must remember to milk the cows

That she must live life, not merely exist

That she must get an education and raise herself and her family out of poverty

That she must marry his son
20 What happens to the books Caldwell gives Mazie?
She gives them to Ginella.

Will ruins them with mud and crayons

She loses them en route to their new home

Jim sells them in town
21 At what age does Mazie learn how to read?
Seven

Five

Six

Eight
22 What else does Mazie learn at school?
A foreign language

How to fight

That she is poor and wears poor clothes

Exotic romance stories
23 What happens to Jim at the end of a year of hard work?
He gets a promotion without pay

He owes the farm manager

He loses everything in a robbery at a saloon

His horse dies and he has to buy a new one
24 What is the climactic event of the Holbrooks' time on the farm?
Nellie's death

The death of the chicks in the oven

Mazie's disappearance into the snow

Anna's miscarriage
25 How long does Jim disappear after he fights with Anna?
Ten days

Twelve days

Five days

Three weeks

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