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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who found Larry when he was raging, soaked, and maniacal during the storm?
(a) Jess
(b) Rose
(c) Loren
(d) Harold

3. What was wrong with the farmland when Ginny's grandparents arrived in the United States?
(a) It was too small
(b) It was a swamp
(c) It was a desert
(d) It didn't exist

4. What are Pammy and Linda peering at as they begin to walk toward the house in the tableau of hope that Ginny envisions?
(a) Bird
(b) Carrot
(c) Ditch
(d) Money

5. Rose notes that Larry's abuse was not that she had been raped, but that she had been ___________.
(a) Forced
(b) Willing
(c) Tricked
(d) Seduced

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginny's mother had not been afraid of _________, but afraid of the life her daughters would lead after that happened.

2. How many land purchases were made in 1939, the year after Ginny's grandmother died, helping to make the farm even larger?

3. Thinking that runners like __________, Ginny decides to wait in her tomato garden for Jess to come by again.

4. Spurning dry clothes, Larry had insisted that his ________ and banker be summoned in the storm.

5. Jess says that Ginny doesn't have children because there are ___________ in the well water at the farm.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ginny drive Rose to and what is the outcome of this trip they take together?

2. What does Ginny currently do for three households each and every day when she is 36?

3. When Larry arrived at Harold's, wet from the storm, what did he demand before asking for dry clothes?

4. When Ty returns with the missing Larry, what does Larry have to say to Ginny in person?

5. What kind of sermon does Henry Dodge give during the service in which Rose and Ginny are helping?

6. What happens when Jess arrives at Ginny's with frozen meat for her to store for him and for Harold?

7. When Ginny takes her nieces to the swimming pool, what do they complain about to her?

8. When Pete mentions overhearing that Harold is going to be changing his will, how does Jess respond?

9. What are the reactions of the daughters to Larry's new disappearance?

10. What happens to the kitchen cabinets that Larry purchases, even though he doesn't need them?

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