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A short quiz over A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Flashcards
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Practice quiz
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Questions
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Answers
1
What does Chaff mean?
When a person has a cold.
To be mean to someone.
A fight.
Protective covering on grain.
2
What does trudged mean? (example: The boy trudged down the path to his teachers home.)
To walk slowly with heavy steps, not wanting to go.
Excitedly running somewhere.
Walking with no cares.
Happily walking somewhere.
3
What did grandma find after the boys fell trying to over turn her privy ?
a pumpkin
a skunk
a pocket knife and saw
MaryAlice's math homework.
4
What two prized possessions did Mary Alice take with her from Chicago?
a play she wrote
a favorite book and a radio
A Philco and Bootsie
Bootsie and new shoes
5
What does sulk mean? (ex: The little girls sulked around the home.)
A part of a corn husk.
Part of a wheel barrel.
Giddy and laughing.
Not happy, sad, sullen.
6
Who does Grandma set Arnold Green up with on a date?
Ina Rae
a stranger
Maxine Patch
Miss Butler
7
What are dungarees? (ex: All the boys wore dungarees.)
Clothes made of a heavy cotton, blue jeans.
A hunting coat.
A shirt for gardening.
Light weight cotton.
8
Astounded: give me the meaning of it?
A little girl
A loud noise
Shocked, or greatly surprised
A stream in the woods
9
Who does MaryAlice marry?
A guy from Chicago
Royce McNabb
No one
Mr. Green
10
What does "brazen" mean? (Ex: Grandma was very brazen in her quest for money.)
Happy, excited.
Boldly, shameless without care.
Quietly, hushed.
Loudly/yelling.
11
What is an armistice?
A part of a tractor.
A tool for making apple cider.
A fight.
Truce (not fighting)
12
What does conniption mean?
A type of bug.
To throw a fit about something.
To make pie out of a substance.
To jump up and down.
13
What does Grandma keep in the attic?
a skeleton
a chest of old clothes
a big black snake
a picture she had painted
14
What does DAR stand for?
Daughters All Right
Dig All Roots
Don't Argue Really
Daughters of the American Revolution
15
Who was the author of “Newsy Notes”?
Carleen Lovejoy
MaryAlice
InaRae
Grandma
16
What happens in the story that makes sirens go off and the whole town take cover?
A tornado
A forest fire
An earthquake
A thunderstorm
17
Who Narrates the story,
A Year Down Yonder?
no one
MaryAlice
Carleen Lovejoy
Grandma
18
How did Grandma get pecans for her Pecan Pie in the fall?
She bought them at the store.
Mrs. Effie Wilcox gave them to grandma.
She stole them.
She drove a tractor into the pecan tree.
19
What did grandma pour over the boys that were trying to turn over her privy?
dirt
flour
glue
water
20
What is Burgoo?
A type of pie.
A little hut.
A stew.
A type of sports equipment.
