The Keeping Room Quiz
- 1.What is the story setting in chapter 2?
- A.
North Carolina
- B.
Camden, South Carolina
- C.
The thirteen colonies
- D.
England
- 2.How does the father in this story feel about education?
- A.
Boys should recieve the best education but girls are not worthy of being educated
- B.
Boys and girls should be equally educated
- C.
Boys hsould recieve the best and boys should just follow their fathers line of work
- D.
There is not enough money to educate anyone in the family
- 3.On page 18 fo the text, what does the phrase "what boiled within him" mean?
- A.
He had a tempature and felt really hot
- B.
He was sweating
- C.
The warm, summer air made everyone feel hot
- D.
What made him angry
- 4.Which sentence from the story shows the main character is brave?
- A.
"I will ke the pistol, I say, and my gaze meets her, unflinching."
- B.
"I have not been hit."
- C.
"I imagine little George and Sarah with their thin faces."
- D.
"Wretched I begin to step backwards from them."
- 5.Although he attempts to be brave, the main character is still a young boy and very fearful as shown in which sentence from the story?
- A.
"I swear father to do just as you have told me."
- B.
"I am very glad he will be each day in our house."
- C.
"I hear my voice tremble and I am barely holding back tears."
- D.
"My knees are shaking but I step up to the door and to the guards."
- 6.In chapter 5, why are the Redcoats building a stockade fence in the garden?
- A.
To bury the dead
- B.
To house the Kershaw family
- C.
To hold prisoners of war
- D.
To hang prisoners of war
- 7.Which sentence from the story shows the soldiers' feelings toward the boy visiting the jail?
- A.
"I am aware that both guards watch me with eyes of scorn."
- B.
"I pull open the heavy door and I am horrified."
- C.
'lord Rawdon is true to his word."
- D.
"A guard is on duty at the large front doors but is unaware that I am to see no family."
- 8.Conditions in the Camden jail can best be desribed as
- A.
Overcrowed
- B.
Stinky
- C.
Sickly
- D.
All of the above
- 9.What responsibility to Joey and Mary volunteer to take on for the prisoners and soldiers alike?
- A.
To fight for the Redcoats
- B.
Writing letters to theri families on their behave
- C.
To be servants
- D.
To protect their family at all costs
- 10.What is the final outcome of the war between the Redcoats and the colonists?
- A.
The war just ends with out a winner
- B.
All the colonists were killed or starved to death
- C.
The British win by burning down all the building in Camden
- D.
The Redcoats retreat and the colonist are victorious
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