Amy's Question quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Which kind of story best describes "Amy's Question"?

   • Ghost story
   • Animal fable
   • Correct answer: Moral tale
   • Tall tale

   Correct. The story exists to teach a lesson: Mrs. Grove explains that every good and beautiful thing in nature reflects something of God to the soul.

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   Question 2. Why does Mrs. Grove begin to feel a little worried at the start of the story?

   • A storm is moving in from the western sky
   • Amy's brother has cut his hand with his knife
   • Amy has walked out to the lake on her own
   • Correct answer: Amy does not answer when she is called

   Mrs. Grove calls from the garden door and again from the foot of the stairs, but there is no reply. That silence is why she wonders where the child can be, with "a slight feeling of anxiety crossing her mind."

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   Question 3. Where does Mrs. Grove find Amy?

   • Correct answer: Sitting at her open bedroom window
   • Out by the lake below the hill
   • Carving a boat beside her brother
   • Knitting by the fire in the parlor

   Mrs. Grove pushes open the bedroom door and sees "her little girl sitting at the open window," so lost in the moonlit sky that she does not hear her mother come in. The lake is only something Amy can see far off.

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   Question 4. What is Amy's brother trying to make?

   • A sled
   • Correct answer: A boat
   • A kite
   • A flute

   Amy's brother is working with his knife "on a block of pine wood, trying to make a boat."

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   Question 5. In the line "making pale the stars that were sparkling in the firmament", what does firmament mean?

   • A still body of water, like a lake
   • The solid ground under our feet
   • A thick bank of cloud or mist
   • Correct answer: The sky, or the heavens above

   The firmament is an old word for the sky or the heavens. The stars are sparkling up there while the full moon rises in the east. The word sounds like 'firm', but it does not mean solid ground.

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   Question 6. What useful job of the moon and stars does Mrs. Grove point out to Amy?

   • They help sailors steer across the sea
   • Correct answer: They show the path home after dark
   • They mark the hours of the night
   • They tell farmers when to plant crops

   Mrs. Grove says that if Amy were at a neighbor's after the sun went down, the moon and stars "would be of great use in showing you the path home-ward." Amy admits she had not thought of that.

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   Question 7. Mrs. Grove says each good and beautiful thing comes with a double blessing. What are the two blessings for?

   • Our family and our friends
   • Our minds and our hands
   • Correct answer: Our bodies and our souls
   • The rich and the poor

   Mrs. Grove says each good and beautiful thing "comes to us with a double blessing,--one for our bodies and the other for our souls." The moon lights dark paths (body) and fills us with peace (soul).

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   Question 8. In the line "God made them for him to use in sustaining the life of his body", what does sustaining mean?

   • Correct answer: Keeping alive and strong
   • Testing or measuring
   • Hiding or covering up
   • Weakening or wearing down

   To sustain something is to keep it going and support it. Mrs. Grove means that God made the things of nature to keep the life of the body (and the soul) alive and strong.

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   Question 9. Amy asks if God is inside the moon and stars. How does her mother answer?

   • No one can know, so she should not ask about it
   • Yes, God lives inside every star in the sky
   • Correct answer: Not quite; each thing mirrors his love and wisdom
   • No, they are lamps God hung to light the earth

   Mrs. Grove says that is "Not exactly what I mean." Instead, each created thing is like a mirror "in which our souls may see something of his love and his wisdom reflected."

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    Question 10. According to Mrs. Grove, the sun is an image of what?

    • God's power
    • God's justice
    • God's truth
    • Correct answer: God's love

    Mrs. Grove says, "In the sun we see an image of his love." It is the water, not the sun, that she calls an image of God's truth.

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    Question 11. What did Amy have in her hand when she went upstairs?

    • Correct answer: Her knitting
    • Her sketchbook
    • A lit candle
    • A storybook

    Her brother says, "I saw her go up stairs with her knitting in her hand half an hour ago."

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    Question 12. In Mrs. Grove's lesson, how is the moon different from the sun?

    • It changes shape, like a mind that cannot decide
    • Correct answer: It is cold and calm, like truth not warmed by love
    • It is warm and bright, like love that gives life
    • It is small and far, like a lesson soon forgotten

    Mrs. Grove says, "The moon is cold and calm, not warm and brilliant like the sun." It is like truths that are learned but "not made warm and bright by love," which still show the way in dark times.

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    Question 13. Amy says she can't see what use the moon and stars are to her. Why does her mother remind her that the evening made her feel quiet and happy?

    • To get her to finish her knitting before bed
    • To prove that the moon is warmer than the sun
    • Correct answer: To show the sky is already doing her soul good
    • To warn her that sitting alone at night is unwise

    Amy's peaceful feeling is the use she could not see. Mrs. Grove points out that "you said only a minute ago that the beauty of this moon-light evening made you feel so quiet and happy": the sky is already blessing Amy's soul.

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    Question 14. The narrator says the full moon was rising "in all her beauty." Which literary device does this use?

    • Correct answer: Personification
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Hyperbole
    • Simile

    Calling the moon 'her' and giving it beauty, as if it were a person, is personification. The setting sun gets the same treatment: "his parting rays" tinge the clouds with gold and purple.

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    Question 15. Which statement best sums up the lesson Mrs. Grove gives Amy?

    • Children should stay indoors once the moon has risen
    • Hard work matters more than gazing at the night sky
    • The night is dangerous for those far from their homes
    • Correct answer: Beautiful things in nature reflect God and bring peace

    Mrs. Grove asks Amy to remember that "every good and beautiful thing you see, being made by God, reflects something of his nature and quality to your soul," which is why nature fills the heart with peace or delight.

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    Question 16. Which of these happen in the story?

    • Amy's brother says he saw her go upstairs with her knitting.

      Happened

      He says, "I saw her go up stairs with her knitting in her hand half an hour ago."

    • Mrs. Grove finds Amy reading a book under a tree in the garden.

      Didn't happen

      Amy is upstairs, "sitting at the open window" of her bedroom.

    • Amy says the moonlight makes a great road of light on the water.

      Happened

      Amy says, "See what a great road of light lies across the water!"

    • Mrs. Grove scolds Amy for not answering when she was called.

      Didn't happen

      There is no scolding. Mrs. Grove sits down by Amy's side and draws an arm around her.

    • Mrs. Grove sits down beside Amy and puts an arm around her.

      Happened

      Mrs. Grove asks what Amy is looking at "as she sat down by her side, and drew an arm around her."

    • Amy's brother finishes his boat and sails it out on the lake.

      Didn't happen

      We only see him working on a block of pine wood, "trying to make a boat." No boat is finished or sailed.

    • Mrs. Grove tells Amy she is too young to understand much of it.

      Happened

      After explaining the moon, she says, "But you are too young to understand much about this."

    • Mrs. Grove says the stars are an image of God's truth.

      Didn't happen

      She says, "In the water we see an image of his truth." The stars are not given that meaning.

    • Amy hears her father's voice and goes down to meet him.

      Happened

      A voice is heard below, and Amy exclaims, "O, there is father!" before going down with her mother.

    • Amy and her mother walk down to the lake to see the moon.

      Didn't happen

      They never leave the house. They sit looking out of the window, and the lake stays "away off by the hill."

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