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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Del's job during the fishing expeditions?
(a) Dig worms
(b) Bait hooks
(c) Clean fish
(d) Catch frogs
2. What reality about Uncle Benny does Del try to understand?
(a) He is moving away
(b) His marriage has failed
(c) He has had an affair
(d) He is sometimes cruel
3. What happens when Major kills another sheep?
(a) He is sent to obedience school
(b) He has to be put down
(c) He is confined to the house
(d) He is castrated
4. Benny asks Del to _______________.
(a) Pick up his laundry
(b) Bake a cake for him
(c) Write a letter for him
(d) Clean his house
5. What can Del not give Owen regarding Major?
(a) A rescue plan
(b) A new home
(c) False hope
(d) Obedience lessons
6. What has the family's dog done recently?
(a) Run into traffic
(b) Learned to roll over
(c) Had puppies
(d) Killed a sheep
7. What are the names of Del's aunts?
(a) Elspeth and Graciela
(b) Elspeth and Grace
(c) Elsie and Grace
(d) Elise and Grace
8. Del is asked to recall on cue information such as the names of the American presidents or _______________________.
(a) The Latin names for herbs
(b) Signers of the Declaration of Independence
(c) The capitals of South American countries
(d) The periodic elements
9. What extreme weather occurs during the last spring that Del spends in Jubilee?
(a) A tornado
(b) A blizzard
(c) A hurricane
(d) A flood
10. Which of the following do Del's aunts not do for the family?
(a) Tutor the children
(b) Darn socks
(c) Preserve fruits and vegetables
(d) Bake and cook
11. How does Del believe her prayer is answered?
(a) Her teacher excuses her from sewing lessons
(b) She gets asked to the prom
(c) She gets a college scholarship
(d) Her hair is really shiny
12. How does Del feel when her mother comes to school to present a prize for an essay contest?
(a) She endures her mother's public persona
(b) She is very proud
(c) She retreats into depression
(d) She is in agony
13. What news does Del receive when she returns home from her aunts' house?
(a) Uncle Craig has died
(b) Uncle Craig has remarried
(c) Uncle Craig is going to Europe
(d) Uncle Craig is moving to Montana
14. Who is the boarder that Del's mother takes in?
(a) Fern Dawson
(b) Fern Dogherty
(c) Fawn Dogherty
(d) Felicia Dogherty
15. Which of the following is not present in Del's aunts' home?
(a) Double ententre
(b) Compassion for those less fortunate
(c) Unkind jabs disguised as jokes
(d) Intricate formality
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Del's mother accuse Del of becoming?
2. Which of the following does Del not wish to believe in?
3. What does Aunt Moira call Del?
4. According to Del's mother, it makes no more sense to believe that an unseen being died for our sins than it would be to ___________________________________.
5. What does Del's father not want to believe about the family dog?
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