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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 happens right before Jack decides to leave the store?
(a) Forgets to pay for the items he bought.
(b) Sees an old girlfriend.
(c) Has a brief interchange with Burley Coulter.
(d) Trips over the leg of the chair.

2. What was Ruth's character like?
(a) Conservative and proper.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Immoral.
(d) Pessimistic and despondent.

3. What happened to Hannah Coulter's first husband?
(a) Died of typhoid fever.
(b) Died during World War II.
(c) Left her for another woman.
(d) Died during World War I.

4. After his time off from working, how would Jack feel?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Rested and relaxed.
(c) Anxious and regretful.
(d) Angry.

5. What did Jack do to escape his domestic misery?
(a) Talked to his friends about how miserable he was.
(b) Talked to his wife to try to work things out.
(c) Threw himself into his work.
(d) Sold his land piece by piece to anyone who would buy it.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Jack returned home following his overhearing McGrother laughing about him, what does he find?

2. What time of the week did Jack take off from working?

3. How is the meal prepared at the destination of Hannah and her children?

4. Why is Jack fond of Hannah?

5. When Mat goes to Lightning's house, what does he tell Lightning to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a horse breaker and what is Jack's experience with it?

2. What part of Jack's memory at the beginning of the novel involves Mat?

3. What is Jack's relationship with Hannah Coultner like?

4. How would Jack feel after his nights off?

5. What is the summary of Mat Feltner's conversation with with his wife about Jack coming to live with them?

6. How does Ruth feel about Jack?

7. Who is Hannah Coultner and what is her relationship to the Feltner family?

8. As the book opens, what does Jack remember about mules as he stands on the porch listening to Mat call the cows?

9. After the dinner at the Feltner's house, what is the memory that Jack has about?

10. What happened between Jack and Will that caused Will to leave?

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