Yonnondio: From the Thirties Quizzes

Yonnondio: From the Thirties Quiz 1

By Caille Millner · Last reviewed June 24, 2001

1 What wakes Mazie up every morning?

Her mother's voice

Her dog

The mine whistle

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

Eight

Seven

Five

Six
3 If the mine whistle sounds in the middle of the day, what does it mean?

The arrival of the mine owner

The death of a mine worker

A celebration or holiday

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

Turn her into a black person

Make her a mine worker

Give her coal poisoning

Make her black inside
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 thinks the mine, like all women, wants a child

He resents Jim Holbrook

He would rather see Mazie die than another man
6 How is Mazie saved?

The night watchman attacks McEvoy with a pickax

She kicks him unexpectedly and manages to escape

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

Her father shoots McEvoy with a pistol
7 What does Jim suggest after the attack on Mazie?

That Mazie be sent to live with her grandparents to recover

That he attacks McEvoy's family

That the family moves east to the farmlands

That the other children be locked up in the house
8 While Anna and Jim are discussing his suggestion, what does Mazie do?

Beats up her younger brother Will

Faints

Runs away

Laughs demonically
9 When the whistle goes off in the middle of the day, what has happened?

One of the workers has attacked and killed his supervisor

A terrible accident; many of the workers have been buried alive

The mine boss has just declared a worker's holiday

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

Five days

Fifteen days

Less than 24 hours

Two months
11 What will happen to Andy Kvaternick?

He will die his first day in the mine

He will suffer and become a drunk

He will become a mine boss

He will go to college and become a teacher
12 When do the Holbrooks leave the mining town?

March

June

January

April
13 How does Jim get Nellie moving on the fourth day of their trip?

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

He uses the grass-on-the-end-of-a-stick trick

He whips her

He has Mazie run in front of her to provoke a chase
14 For how long are the Holbrooks immobile after the storm?

Two nights

Three days

A week

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

Islam

Judaism

Hinduism

Christianity
16 What is Benson's warning to the Holbrooks?

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

That Caldwell is a bad man

That mules are better than horses

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?

The Day of the Dead

A harvest party

A big summer dance held in their barn

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

The American Dream

The idea of building a college nearby

The stars and the universe

The presidential race
19 What is the jist of Caldwell's deathbed wisdom for Mazie?

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

That she must live life, not merely exist

That she must marry his son

That she must remember to milk the cows
20 What happens to the books Caldwell gives Mazie?

Jim sells them in town

She loses them en route to their new home

Will ruins them with mud and crayons

She gives them to Ginella.
21 At what age does Mazie learn how to read?

Seven

Five

Six

Eight
22 What else does Mazie learn at school?

How to fight

Exotic romance stories

That she is poor and wears poor clothes

A foreign language
23 What happens to Jim at the end of a year of hard work?

He owes the farm manager

His horse dies and he has to buy a new one

He loses everything in a robbery at a saloon

He gets a promotion without pay
24 What is the climactic event of the Holbrooks' time on the farm?

The death of the chicks in the oven

Anna's miscarriage

Nellie's death

Mazie's disappearance into the snow
25 How long does Jim disappear after he fights with Anna?

Three weeks

Ten days

Twelve days

Five days

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