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Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Anne Burns

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1. What causes Rucker death?

(A) Pneumonia

(B) A gunshot wound

(D) An injury sustained in a car accident

2. After whom does Will name his dog?

(A) Thomas Edison

(B) Rucker

(D) Miss Love

3. How old is Aunt Loma?

(A) Twenty-four

(B) Twenty

(D) Fifty-one

4. How does Camp commit suicide?

(A) He hangs himself in the barn

(B) He swallows rat poison

(D) He shoots himself

5. Who sees Miss Love kissing Clayton McAllister?

(A) Miss Effie Belle Tate

(B) Miss Ann Boozer

(D) Hoyt Tweedy

6. Who directs the school play?

(A) Miss Effie Belle Tate

(B) Will

(D) Aunt Carrie

7. How is Aunt Carrie related to Will Tweedy?

(A) She is his sister

(B) She is his daughter

(D) She is not related at all

8. Who saves T. R. on the train trestle?

(A) Will

(B) Hosie Roach

(D) Loomis

9. Who is the Tweedys' cook?

(A) Queenie

(B) Loomis

(D) Clayton

10. Who erases Miss Love's name from the Toy family Bible?

(A) Will

(B) Aunt Loma

(D) Mattie Lou

11. What does Miss Love name her racehorse?

(A) Champion

(B) Mr. Beautiful

(D) Rucker

12. Who goes to New York?

(A) Will and his friends

(B) Aunt Loma and Uncle Camp

(D) Rucker and Miss Love

13. Who raped Miss Love?

(A) Her father

(B) Rucker

(D) Will

14. Cold Sassy's first Fourth of July celebration since the Civil War take place in what year?

(A) 1914

(B) 1860

(D) 1905

15. Who has the first motorcar in Cold Sassy?

(A) Rucker

(B) The Tweedys

(D) Miss Love

16. Who was Miss Love's boyfriend before she married Rucker?

(A) Hoyt Tweedy

(B) Will

(D) Son Black

17. Who ends up with Mattie Lou's piano?

(A) The Tweedys

(B) Miss Love

(D) The Methodist church

18. What kind of car does Rucker buy?

(A) A Cadillac

(B) A Porsche

(D) A Model T

19. What does Rucker give Miss Love for her birthday?

(A) A record player

(B) A motorcar

(D) Electric power

20. When is Miss Love's birthday?

(A) On the Fourth of July

(B) On New Year's Day

(D) On Valentine's Day

21. Which of Will's friends dies before the novel begins?

(A) Pink Predmore

(B) Lee Roy

(D) Clayton McAllister

22. According to Miss Love, why does Queenie eat from trays instead of plates?

(A) She likes big helpings

(B) Her white employers don't want her to use their dishes

(D) Trays are easier to clean

23. What is the new name of Cold Sassy's hotel?

(A) The Rucker Blakeslee Hotel

(B) Hotel Bedbug

(D) Hotel Prince Edward

24. Where is Miss Love Simpson from originally?

(A) New York

(B) Baltimore

(D) Atlanta

25. At the end of the novel, what is the town renamed?

(A) Commerce

(B) Progressive City

(D) Old Sassy

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