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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Weaver confronts Mattie in Chapter 30 of her need to face the truth regarding what?
(a) Failing out of school.
(b) Her situation with Miss Wilcox.
(c) Her situation with Royal.
(d) Her father’s drinking problem.

2. How many of the family cows die from infection while Mattie is home in Chapter 25?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Who is Royal’s ex-girlfriend that Mattie sees him arguing with at the picnic in Chapter 29?
(a) Belinda Becker.
(b) Martha Miller.
(c) Grace Brown.
(d) Beth Gokey.

4. Who does Mattie learn Royal informed of Emmie Hubbard’s back-taxes in Chapter 29?
(a) Belinda Becker.
(b) Uncle Fifty.
(c) Arn Satterlee.
(d) Lawton Gokey.

5. Who does Mattie tell about Miss Wilcox’s secret pseudonym in Chapters 17-19?
(a) Belinda Becker.
(b) Royal Loomis.
(c) Mrs. Hennessey.
(d) No one.

6. When Grace Brown was historically murdered, she was supposedly knocked unconscious with what object?
(a) A baseball bat.
(b) A golf club.
(c) A tennis racket.
(d) A polo stick.

7. Where does Mr. Maxwell always sit in the dining room at the Glenmore?
(a) Table 10.
(b) Table 3.
(c) Table 1.
(d) Table 6.

8. Why has Miss Baxter lost her job at the school in Chapter 27?
(a) She was caught with a student.
(b) Her identity has been revealed.
(c) She was caught cheating on finals.
(d) Her husband filed for divorce.

9. When was Emily Dickinson born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1798.

10. The book by Emily Baxter that Mattie receives in the mail from Miss Wilcox is a book of what?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Limericks.
(c) Essays.
(d) Poems.

11. What does Weaver Smith hope to be one day?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A train engineer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A lawyer.

12. What is the name of Royal Loomis’s eldest brother?
(a) Peter Loomis.
(b) James Loomis.
(c) Frank Loomis.
(d) Dan Loomis.

13. Royal Loomis and who come to Mattie’s aid in tending her family’s farm in Chapter 25?
(a) Mr. Maxwell.
(b) Minnie Compeau.
(c) Emmie Hubbard.
(d) Iva Loomis.

14. What happens to the men that beat up Weaver in Chapter 25?
(a) They are freed.
(b) They are jailed.
(c) They are awarded money.
(d) They are hanged.

15. What does Mattie mail to Royal Loomis at the end of the novel?
(a) Her college acceptance letter.
(b) Her father's will.
(c) Her engagement ring.
(d) Money for land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie arrives at Emmie Hubbard’s home to discover Emmie engaged in sexual relations with whom in Chapter 18?

2. Where does Henry leave some jars of milk, causing them to explode, in the narrative?

3. What causes Mattie internal conflict regarding the letters of Grace Brown in the novel?

4. Emmie Hubbard’s eldest son tells Mattie that his mother is upset after hearing word from whom in Chapter 18?

5. After Henry leaves out milk and causes it to explode, it comes to light that he was never really what?

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