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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Haskell do for Katy's funeral instead of attending the service?
(a) Plays two songs over and over on the piano.
(b) Gets drunk.
(c) Reads poetry in the words.
(d) Stays in bed.

2. Who does Brett begin to date?
(a) No one; he continues to try to get Julie to get back with him.
(b) Carlotta.
(c) Misty.
(d) Deborah.

3. What amazes Jonathan about Katy and Haskell?
(a) That Haskell does not drink around Katy.
(b) That Katy has a calming influence on Haskell.
(c) That Katy normally does not allow anyone but Jonathan near her or to help her.
(d) That they look so much alike.

4. Where is one of Julie's stories published?
(a) In a university magazine.
(b) In Reader's Digest.
(c) In the New Yorker.
(d) In Life.

5. What does Brett do when he and Julie are done talking?
(a) Tries to coerce her into walking in the woods with him.
(b) Slaps her in anger.
(c) Tells her he understands.
(d) Leaves immediately.

6. Who joins Julie doing things in the summer?
(a) Alicia.
(b) Her brother Chris.
(c) Her dad.
(d) Aunt Cordelia.

7. To whom does Julie defend her relationship with Brett?
(a) The other girls.
(b) Her father, aunt, and Alicia.
(c) Her brother Chris.
(d) No one.

8. What does Julie secretly think?
(a) That Uncle Haskell dislikes Jonathan.
(b) That Aunt Cordelia is still a little bit in love with Jonathan.
(c) That Jonathan is still a little bit in love with Aunt Cordelia.
(d) That her father is not happy.

9. Who discovers they are in love?
(a) Julie and Danny.
(b) Brett and Julie.
(c) Danny and Eden.
(d) Cordelia and Matthew.

10. Where do Jonathan and Katy Eltwing move?
(a) Into a house about three miles from Aunt Cordelia's house.
(b) To the city nearby.
(c) To a town about five miles from Aunt Cordelia's town.
(d) Into a farm adjacent to Aunt Cordelia's farm.

11. About what is Julie annoyed with recent meetings with her father?
(a) That he seems distracted and does not pay attention to her.
(b) That Alicia Allison is accompanying him.
(c) That he has not mentioned her coming home.
(d) That he has canceled several scheduled visits at the last moment.

12. What convinces Julie to stay at Aunt Cordelia's?
(a) She and her dad seem like strangers.
(b) She walks in on Alicia and her father in an amorous embrace.
(c) She doesn't like to be a built-in babysitter.
(d) She and Alicia have a fight about the office.

13. What does Haskell play for Katy?
(a) A phonograph.
(b) Some classical recordings.
(c) Some halting songs on the piano which Katy can no longer play.
(d) An old guitar.

14. Why is the driver irritated with Julie?
(a) He has heard some mean rumors about her and Brett.
(b) She won't speak to him.
(c) He was afraid for her to walk home alone.
(d) She didn't tell him she was staying after school.

15. What does Katy seem to find soothing?
(a) Julie has not met Katy again since the first dinner.
(b) The calm demeanor of Uncle Haskell.
(c) Going to the church and praying for hours a day.
(d) Her husband's voice telling her everything is alright.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are all the girls envious?

2. What ends after the night Brett loses his temper?

3. What is Haskell doing for Cordelia?

4. What happens to Julie's feelings towards Alicia eventually?

5. What does Aunt Cordelia say about Julie and Uncle Haskell?

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