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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the people in his family and of the town treat Mr. Carver when he is young?
(a) As a bully.
(b) Like a little prince.
(c) Like a middle child.
(d) As one of them.

2. Where do Phillip's sisters live after their father dies?
(a) In their father's house.
(b) They move to Paris.
(c) They move back to their own homes.
(d) They move back to Nashville.

3. What did Holly imagine she would do when she leaves Cleveland and moves to New York fifteen years before?
(a) Get an advanced degree in English.
(b) Become a tenured professor at NYU.
(c) Write a best selling novel.
(d) Have a high powered literary career.

4. Who does Phillip call to meet him at the airport?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Alex.
(c) Howard.
(d) Georgie.

5. What is Phillip certain of in Chapter 8?
(a) His sisters influenced Mrs. Stockwell not to marry Mr. Carver.
(b) Alex had a part in the situation.
(c) His sisters hired someone to threaten Mrs. Stockwell.
(d) The minister talked Mrs. Stockwell out of the marriage.

6. What does Father say to Betsy and Josephine inside the house?
(a) "What are we having for lunch?"
(b) "Please leave me alone."
(c) "Why are you moving into my house?"
(d) "Welcome home, girls."

7. How does Lewis Shackleford view Mr. Carver?
(a) As a heel and a clod.
(b) As a clever and funny man.
(c) As a country gentleman with agrarian traditions.
(d) As a shrewd businessman.

8. When does Holly's father die?
(a) The year before Phillp's father.
(b) A year after Phillip's father.
(c) The winter before Phillip's father.
(d) He does not die.

9. What do Alex, Phillip and his father see as they pull into the driveway of the house?
(a) An ambulance.
(b) Newspaper reporters.
(c) A moving van.
(d) A new car in the driveway.

10. How does Phillip react to his sisters when inside the house?
(a) He changes his clothes for dinner.
(b) He makes a reservation to take a train home the following morning.
(c) He immediately made a plane reservation to leave that evening.
(d) He hugs them both and thanks them.

11. What is happening at Mr. Carver's home?
(a) Betsy and Josephine are moving their father's things out of the house.
(b) Betsy and Josephine are moving into Mr. Carver's home.
(c) The movers are delivering furniture Father had recently purchased.
(d) Maud and Horace are moving out.

12. What does Holly encourage Phillip to focus on in his family?
(a) Try confronting his father about all of his anger.
(b) Try seeing his father in such a way as to understand him as a human being.
(c) Hold a family meeting and demand Father's release from his house.
(d) Go with her to Cleveland to see her father.

13. How does Phillip feel about the furnishings in his house?
(a) He is angry at Holly for wanting them.
(b) He is attached to them.
(c) He is proud of them.
(d) He does not care about any of them.

14. What is Mr. Carver doing in the car in Chapter 8?
(a) Talking to Phillip and Alex.
(b) Working out something in his head.
(c) Crying.
(d) Screaming in anger.

15. How does Phillip feel about his father before the man dies the following spring?
(a) They are able to talk of things they could not when face-to-face.
(b) They have nothing in common.
(c) His father really is an ogre.
(d) They can never forget the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the two families often do together on Saturdays?

2. How do Mr. Carver and Mr. Shackleford greet each other in the restaurant?

3. How does Phillips find he identifies with his father one evening?

4. With whom does Mrs. Carver spend much of her time on the Saturday outings?

5. Where was Mr. Carver born?

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