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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. About what is Sandy confused?
(a) Why Carl wants her to abstain from sex.
(b) Why Carl is so good to her now after beating her.
(c) Where the hitchhiker went.
(d) How she got where she is.

2. What does Carl do with the first hitchhiker?
(a) Kills him.
(b) Forces her to have sex with Carl.
(c) Forces him strip and leave that way.
(d) Forces him to have sex with Carl.

3. Where does Willard end up renting a house for his family?
(a) Spring Valley.
(b) Mud Hollow.
(c) Mitchell Flats.
(d) Dunlap's Cove.

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

5. What does Carl believe he is doing?
(a) He is helping the population explosion.
(b) He is educating Sandy about the great United States.
(c) He is on a religious mission.
(d) He is saving his wife's soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Willard's mother ask Willard to pray?

2. What is the year of the opening of the first chapter?

3. What does Carl do after Sandy falls asleep?

4. What does Roy empty over his head?

5. What does Arvin consider the event that he witnesses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roy do that causes the crowd to panic?

2. From whom does Willard rent a house and how does the man verbally abuse Willard?

3. Where is Willard going and what is he thinking about as he travels in Chapter 1?

4. Where is Arvin joining his father?

5. What happens to the young, attractive soldier that Carl and Sandy pick up?

6. What happens when Arvin turns ten and how does Willard plan to fix it?

7. How does Willard exact his revenge on the hunters later, and what does he say to Arvin about the incident?

8. What does Arvin start to do when he hears someone nearby and what is his father's reaction? How does Arvin feel what his father tells him to do?

9. What does Willard confess to Emma and what is Emma's reaction?

10. Who is closing Maude's Store, and about what is he fantasizing?

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