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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jess show up with since Harold's freezer breaks down and this thing needs to stay cool?
(a) Frozen dinner
(b) Frozen meat
(c) Frozen veggies
(d) Frozen pies

2. Where had Ginny and Rose created their own little world when they were children in order to entertain each other?
(a) The large bay window
(b) Their parent's room
(c) Their mother's closet
(d) The pond

3. Ginny's grandparents were the ones who arrived from ____________ to find their new farm land to not be up to their expectations.
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) Germany

4. __________ is complaining about the new red air conditioned Harvester tractor that was recently purchased.
(a) Larry
(b) Harold
(c) Jess
(d) Loren

5. After a church service, Ginny urges _________ to make amends with Larry as she thinks it's the right thing to do.
(a) Caroline
(b) Rose
(c) Jess
(d) Loren

6. Who upends the Monopoly game in Pete's lap when she hears the news of the unknown wedding?
(a) Rose
(b) Jess
(c) Ginny
(d) Caroline

7. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?
(a) Green bean
(b) Corn
(c) Pumpkin
(d) Tomato

8. What is the task Ginny is trying to accomplish, one that takes her until noon that morning?
(a) Cleaning carpets
(b) Washing dishes
(c) Dusting
(d) Polishing the wood

9. What were Ty and Pete installing when Ginny returned from the swimming pool with Pammy and Linda?
(a) A pool
(b) Air conditioner
(c) Heater
(d) New windows

10. Ginny takes her nieces, Pammy and Linda, to the __________ swimming pool on a hot and windy Friday in June.
(a) County
(b) Farm
(c) Zebulon
(d) Pike

11. What is the name of the road that Country Road 686 intersects with, according to the narrator?
(a) Cabot
(b) Farm
(c) Peave
(d) River

12. As the storm clouds form on the horizon, a ___________ is already issued for the country surrounding and including the farm.
(a) Thunderstorm warning
(b) Tornado warning
(c) Thunderstorm watch
(d) Tornado watch

13. What does Jess ask Ginny to do when he surprises her by showing up at her house?
(a) Give him a book
(b) Go for a walk
(c) Sleep with him
(d) Make him breakfast

14. Who starts acting with more authority now that Larry has rolled his truck, something that this person had not done before?
(a) Ty
(b) Ginny
(c) Rose
(d) Loren

15. Ginny and her sister, Rose, raised Caroline the best they could after their ____________ died and could not help them.
(a) Nanny
(b) Father
(c) Uncle
(d) Mother

Short Answer Questions

1. Larry announces a plan to form a corporation with the farm, giving each of his daughters __________ of the ownership of the farm.

2. _________ does not respond to any of Ty and Ginny's questions, neither in the hospital or in the car on the drive home.

3. What had Ty's father died from?

4. Ginny cannot think of ________ without thinking of her room, which she cannot think of without thinking of her father.

5. Larry is whining to everyone at the picnic instead of waiting for people to talk to him, mostly about the conditions at the _________.

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