1. Where and in what decade does the story take place? The 1900's Northeast The 1930's South The 1920's Southwest The 1950's Northwest

2. Does the narrator's elderly but childlike cousin have a name? Answer: (One Word yes or No)

3. What name does the cousin call the narrator? Dill Fred Buddy Truman

4. What is the cousin's dog's name? Fifi Lassie Queenie Lady

5. What food do they make during the season? fruitcakes hors d'ouvres eggnog gingerbread

6. What are they doing the morning the story starts? gathering apples picking cranberries harvesting grapes gathering pecans

7. What do they take with them when doing so? a burlap sack an old baby carriage an old washtub an old wicker basket

8. Name the one thing they don't do to raise money. sell fruits and jams rob a bank hold rummage sales enter contests

9. Why does the cousin never go to movies? she is nearsighted she doesn't like crowds she is half-blind she won't waste her eyes

10. What item are they unable to buy at the store? cumquats allspice whiskey currants

11. From whom do they get it? Answer: (Two Words)

12. Why do the other two relatives scold her? she gives Buddy some whiskey she moons them she dances naked she cusses them out

13. What happens the morning after? They sing carols They get a hangover They get a Christmas tree They steal a car

14. How high is the woman in the car willing to pay for it? fifty cents ten dollars five dollars fifteen dollars

15. What present would the cousin have like to have given him? a bicycle a bb rifle a sled a pair of tap shoes

16. What do they do Christmas morning? wake up their relatives burn down the house go possum hunting yodel

17. What does he get? oranges, rollerskates, cap pistol apples, jumprope,baseball socks,shirt,sweater, magazine raisins, shotgun,dog whistle

18. What does she get? oranges and a shawl bananas and a locket blueberries and a brooch cherries and a comb

19. What do they do that morning? attend church fish fly kites hunt

20. What happens to the cousin and her dog? they die she shoots the dog the dog bites her mistress she gets lost in the woods