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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is still broiling as Ginny decides to leave Ty--actually they are still on the stove as she walks out the door?
(a) Chicken breasts
(b) Steaks
(c) Pork chops
(d) Fish sticks

2. Pete gets drunk and drives over to threaten ________ and then drives off into the quarry where he actually drowns.
(a) Loren
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Harold

3. Caroline expresses forced enthusiasm, according to Ginny's observation, over a good price on __________.
(a) Shaving cream
(b) Shelving
(c) Towels
(d) Socks

4. The farm's ultimate legacy was $34,000 in debt that was owed to __________ after the death of Larry.
(a) The neighbors
(b) The IRS
(c) The state
(d) The county

5. Ginny recalls that when she ate those items in #109 that she had been aware of her own __________.
(a) Skin
(b) Eyes
(c) Hands
(d) Pulse

6. What does Pete say that he wants, even though his daughters have been waiting for hours during their long meeting?
(a) Food
(b) A new tractor
(c) Drink
(d) A coat

7. Who reminds Ginny of Rose? This person is a music education major at the local college.
(a) Pammy
(b) Tara
(c) Jess
(d) Linda

8. Ginny finds out that ________ had a heart attack while pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle.
(a) Larry
(b) Jess
(c) Loren
(d) Ty

9. Ginny remembers giggling with Rose over the phone when Rose was away at __________.
(a) College
(b) The farm
(c) Work training
(d) Summer camp

10. To Ginny, the sound of __________ is something oracular, telling her what she should do with her life at this point.
(a) The children
(b) Ty's snoring
(c) Cooking food
(d) The wind

11. Rose's legacy to her daughters was her __________, her way of looking things, according to Ginny.
(a) Life
(b) Honesty
(c) Courage
(d) Strength

12. What does Ginny notice at 6:00 AM in the morning, with Rose stumbling up the road as well?
(a) Hearse
(b) Jess' truck in her yard
(c) Sheriff's car
(d) Ambulance

13. At the ___________ in the town where Ginny travels, the store manager notes that Larry is planning on moving to Des Moines.
(a) Grocery store
(b) Department store
(c) Antique store
(d) Book shop

14. __________ was always patient and good humored, always moving slowly forward.
(a) Larry
(b) Ty
(c) Pete
(d) Harold

15. ___________ just wants the plates that Larry ate off but nothing else that might be on the farm.
(a) Ginny
(b) Loren
(c) Jess
(d) Caroline

Short Answer Questions

1. The autopsy of Pete shows that his _____________ was high enough to preclude consciousness, making it debatable that he drove in accidentally.

2. For the first time, _________ believes she really feels herself, that she can speak with a certain moral authority.

3. __________ cooks for the crew and is thanked for the home-cooked meal as a result.

4. The sorting of possession happens in the cold as _________ doesn't believe ventilation prevents kerosene heater fatalities.

5. ___________ tells Ginny and Caroline they can take any personal possessions they want from the house and farm.

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