The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapter XII. Following a Clue quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What excuse lets Nancy go to Moon Lake without making anyone suspicious?

   • Correct answer: She joins Helen Corning at a girls' camp there
   • Abigail Rowen asks her to visit a cousin there
   • She is invited to the Tophams' summer party
   • Her father sends her on a legal errand there

   Her father suggests a vacation, and Nancy remembers Helen is at a girls' camp on Moon Lake.

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   Question 2. What does Nancy find wrong at the Horner farm?

   • The Tophams have come to buy their farm
   • The barn roof has blown off in the night's wind and rain
   • Correct answer: Allie's chickens are dying of a strange disease
   • Grace has hurt her hand and cannot sew

   Allie found ten chickens dead that morning, and a fox took two the day before.

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   Question 3. How does Grace answer Nancy's offer to pay for the dress in advance?

   • She asks Nancy to pay Allie for the chickens
   • She says she will not make the dress after all
   • She accepts so she can buy more chicken feed
   • Correct answer: She says paying before the work is done isn't good business

   Grace shakes her head and says, "Not until the work is finished. That isn't good business."

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   Question 4. What happens to Nancy's roadster on the road to Moon Lake?

   • The engine overheats
   • Correct answer: A rear tire goes flat
   • It runs out of gas
   • It slides into a ditch

   The car pulls to the left, and Nancy finds a flat rear tire, which she changes herself.

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   Question 5. What does Nancy give Helen soon after arriving at camp?

   • A letter from Helen's mother
   • Two tickets for the big dance at the lake next week
   • A new dress made by Grace
   • Correct answer: The money paid by Mr. Topham for the tickets

   Nancy tells Helen about selling the tickets and gives her the money paid by Mr. Topham.

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   Question 6. Why does Nancy agree to the launch ride even though she is tired?

   • Helen promises it will be the last trip of the day
   • She wants to swim in the middle of the lake
   • Correct answer: It gives her a chance to find the Topham bungalow
   • The camp director orders every new girl to go

   When Helen mentions the summer cottages, Nancy thinks at once of the Topham bungalow.

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   Question 7. What does Helen say about the Topham bungalow?

   • Correct answer: It is closed, with a caretaker named Jeff Tucker looking after it
   • The whole Topham family is staying there for the rest of the summer
   • It was sold to a family from the city earlier this spring
   • It burned down in a fire during the big storm last month

   Helen says the cottage is closed and a caretaker called Jeff Tucker looks after it.

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   Question 8. What does 'foreboding' mean in: 'Not without foreboding of trouble, she stopped the car'?

   • A sudden memory of an old friend
   • Correct answer: A feeling that something bad will happen
   • A happy feeling of excitement
   • A plan for the rest of the day

   Nancy senses something is wrong with the car before she finds the flat tire.

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   Question 9. What does 'launch' mean in: 'We're all going for a ride in the launch before supper'?

   • A rowboat with no motor
   • Correct answer: A small motorboat
   • A wagon pulled by horses
   • A long walk in the woods

   The girls ride across Moon Lake in the camp's motorboat.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen in Chapter 12?

    • Nancy changes a flat tire by herself.

      Happened

    • Nancy tells the Horner girls about the Crowley clock.

      Didn't happen

    • Helen points out the Topham bungalow from the launch.

      Happened

    • Nancy visits the Topham bungalow that evening.

      Didn't happen

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