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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comforts Laurel after the funeral?
(a) Fay.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Major Bullock.
(d) Miss Adele.

2. What does Laurel remember about her mother as she prepared to go into the hospital?
(a) That she put on makeup.
(b) That she was a hypochondriac.
(c) That she was frightened.
(d) That she dismissed her medical problems as trival.

3. Why would Judge want to keep evidence of his first wife from Fay?
(a) To keep Fay from destroying them.
(b) To keep those memories sacred.
(c) To keep Fay from getting jealous.
(d) To protect Fay from Judge's continuing feelings for his first wife.

4. Who is the portrait of hanging in Judge's library?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) His Union father.
(c) Judge himself.
(d) His Confederate father.

5. How does Laurel feel about her father's things?
(a) They are worth a great deal of money.
(b) They are a nuisance.
(c) They are comforting and familiar.
(d) They are old fashioned and useless.

6. Who walks Laurel home?
(a) The bridesmaids.
(b) Miss Adele.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Major Bullock.

7. Who was the optimist?
(a) Judge .
(b) Laurel.
(c) Fay.
(d) Laurel's mother.

8. Who do they women think Fay takes after?
(a) Judge's first wife.
(b) Judge.
(c) Laurel.
(d) Her mother.

9. Where does the bird come from?
(a) The dining room.
(b) The garage.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The bathroom.

10. Who do the women blame for Judge marrying Fay?
(a) Laurel.
(b) Judge's first wife.
(c) Miss Adele.
(d) Themselves.

11. Who would legally inherit the house if there is no will?
(a) Laurel.
(b) Fay.
(c) Miss Adele.
(d) Missouri.

12. Who does Laurel have dinner with in Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) Miss Adele.
(b) Missouri.
(c) The bridesmaids.
(d) Fay.

13. Where does Fay decide to go?
(a) Ohio.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

14. What does Laurel find in her father's library?
(a) The will.
(b) Love letters.
(c) Speeches from when he was mayor.
(d) Photographs.

15. What is Laurel looking for in her father's library?
(a) The deed to the house.
(b) Love letters.
(c) The will.
(d) Judge's checkbook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the absence of the letters symbolize to Laurel?

2. Where does Laurel find herself trapped after she traps the bird in the upstairs hall?

3. What does the pain symbolize to Laurel?

4. Where is Laurel's mother from?

5. Where is Laurel trapped?

(see the answer keys)

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