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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of how others in the area see Arvin?
(a) Others avoid Arvin.
(b) Arvin is envied.
(c) Others take advantage of him.
(d) Arvin is bullied.

2. Where has Sandy been driving?
(a) Across the Midwest.
(b) In the Pacific Northwest.
(c) In the New England States.
(d) Across the South.

3. What is Henry Dunlap's profession?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A police chief.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A fireman.

4. What does Willard tells Arvin when Willard comes to the clearing?
(a) Charlotte is well.
(b) Charlotte wants to speak to Arvin.
(c) Willard is sorry for killing Arvin's dog.
(d) Charlotte is dead.

5. About what is Hank fantasizing?
(a) Going to Cincinnati for a baseball game.
(b) Asking a certain girl out for a date.
(c) Owning the local flower shop.
(d) Playing for the Cincinnati Reds.

6. About what does Dunlap taunt Willard?
(a) The disparity in the two men's incomes.
(b) That Willard's wife has her eye on Dunlap.
(c) That Arvin is small for his age.
(d) That Dunlap will never sell the house to a loser.

7. For what does Willard ask God regularly?
(a) The strength not to kill Dunlap.
(b) His wife to become pregnant again.
(c) His son to get bigger.
(d) Patience with Dunlap.

8. How does Arvin feel about his father's reaction to the statement about Charlotte?
(a) Arvin is certain his father will do something when it's appropriate to do so.
(b) Arvin is outraged that his father is not listening.
(c) Arvin admires his father's calmness.
(d) Arvin is disappointed.

9. What does Arvin find in the prayer clearing after waking?
(a) The prayer clearing cleaned up and his father sitting despondent.
(b) His father crying.
(c) His father and another man fighting.
(d) His father dead of suicide.

10. What does Roy say God did for Roy?
(a) Taught him compassion.
(b) Took away Roy's fear of spiders.
(c) Gave him wealth.
(d) Gave him his wife.

11. What does Lee ask Arvin?
(a) If Arvin wants to wait until later to take Lee out to his house.
(b) If Arvin is a runaway.
(c) If Arvin is making up stories.
(d) If Arvin wants to ride in the police car.

12. What does Hank give Arvin?
(a) A chocolate bar.
(b) A bag of licorice.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A free soda.

13. How is Charlotte's funeral described?
(a) As sparsely attended.
(b) As lavishly done.
(c) As highly attended.
(d) Willard does not have a funeral.

14. Who stops by where Arvin and his father are?
(a) The game warden.
(b) Two hunters.
(c) One of Arvin's uncles.
(d) The pastor.

15. Why does Willard decide to move?
(a) To take up farming again.
(b) To get Arvin out of the city.
(c) To find a better doctor for Emma.
(d) To buy a bigger house for the growing familly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arvin respond to Willard's action?

2. Who greets Willard when he arrives home?

3. What does Theodore say he once did?

4. Where does Willard end up renting a house for his family?

5. What does Willard nail to a cross in the prayer clearing?

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