The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapter IX. Vital Information quiz

Questions and answers

1. 1

   Question 1. How do neighbors tell Nancy she will recognize Abigail's house?

   • Correct answer: It is the most run-down house along the road
   • It sits right next to the West Lake schoolhouse
   • It has a large garden full of berry bushes
   • It has a white picket fence and a red door

   Neighbors said she couldn't miss it, as it was the most run-down house along the road.

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2. 2

   Question 2. How was Abigail hurt?

   • She was knocked down by a peddler
   • She tripped over her rocking chair
   • Correct answer: She fell down the cellar stairs
   • She slipped on the rotten boardwalk

   Abigail says she fell down the cellar stairs and hurt her hip and sprained her ankle.

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3. 3

   Question 3. Why won't Abigail let Nancy pay for a doctor?

   • She does not trust doctors at all
   • Correct answer: She says she would rather die than take charity
   • She thinks her ankle is not badly hurt
   • Her nephew is coming from the city to take care of her

   Abigail shakes her head stubbornly and says, "I'll not take charity. I'd rather die in my bed."

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4. 4

   Question 4. What does Nancy do with Abigail's money jar?

   • She adds twenty dollars of her own money to the jar for later
   • She gives it to the storekeeper to hold
   • She uses it to pay for tea and bread
   • Correct answer: She leaves the money and pays for everything herself

   Nancy does not take any money from the jar; she buys about ten dollars of groceries herself.

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5. 5

   Question 5. What did Josiah tell Abigail about writing the will himself?

   • That he copied it from the first will
   • Correct answer: That he had fooled the lawyers and written it himself
   • That Mr. Rolsted had written it out for him
   • That the Tophams helped him write it

   He said, "I fooled them lawyers and wrote it myself."

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6. 6

   Question 6. According to Josiah, what made his homemade will legal?

   • Writing it on the official paper from a court
   • Signing it in front of the judge in Masonville
   • Correct answer: Having it witnessed, as a lawyer told him
   • Keeping it at the bank for one full year

   He said a lawyer told him it was all right just so long as he had it witnessed.

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7. 7

   Question 7. What happens just as Abigail gives up trying to remember?

   • Nancy finds a letter under the cushions
   • A neighbor knocks loudly at the front door
   • Abigail falls asleep on the couch
   • Correct answer: The clock on the mantel chimes three

   At that very moment the clock on the mantel chimes three, and Abigail stares at it.

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   Question 8. What does 'gingerly' mean in: 'gingerly avoiding loose boards which threatened to fly up at her'?

   • Correct answer: Very carefully
   • Very quickly
   • Very cheerfully
   • Very angrily

   Nancy steps carefully around the rotting boards so she won't trip.

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   Question 9. What does 'witnessed' mean in: 'it was all right just so long as I had it witnessed'?

   • Hidden in a place no one could find
   • Correct answer: Signed while another person watched, to prove it is real
   • Read aloud to the family at dinner
   • Locked in a box at the bank

   A witness watches the signing so the will can be proved genuine later.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen in Chapter 9?

    • Nancy bandages Abigail's swollen ankle.

      Happened

    • Abigail reads Nancy the words written in Josiah's will.

      Didn't happen

    • Abigail says Josiah showed her a paper he called his will.

      Happened

    • Nancy brings a doctor back to the cottage.

      Didn't happen

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