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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Professors invites Jeff to go to a ____________ with him and Brother Thomas.
(a) Mass
(b) Play
(c) Lecture
(d) Guitar concert

2. Who writes Jeff a note saying that they would be happy to see him come back for the summer?
(a) Aunt Georgina
(b) Gambo
(c) Melody
(d) Aunt Booty

3. Who pays for the lunch that Melody and Jeff share in a nice restaurant in town?
(a) Melody
(b) Jeff
(c) Gambo
(d) A stranger

4. The boyfriend tells Jeff that Melody married the Professor because she was ______________.
(a) Desperate
(b) Lonely
(c) Pregnant
(d) Single

5. Melody tells Jeff that Gambo has had ______________ and is very weak as a result.
(a) A broken back
(b) A stroke
(c) Cancer
(d) Surgery

6. What does Jeff catch that the Professor does not notice to be a bad thing until something is seriously wrong?
(a) Flu
(b) Chicken pox
(c) Measles
(d) Food poisoning

7. Jeff looks into the mirror and sees that he has his mother's ____________ eyes and this makes him feel better.
(a) Black
(b) Green
(c) Blue
(d) Gray

8. Melody tells Jeff that _________________ have killed the crabs and the herons who used to live in the marshes.
(a) Oil drillers
(b) Larger fish
(c) Factories
(d) Men

9. In what grade is Jeff when he finds out his mother has left him and his father, the Professor?
(a) Second
(b) Fifth
(c) Eighth
(d) First

10. What does Gambo say of Jeff as she is looking at him and telling others to look as well?
(a) He is too much like his father
(b) He is handsome
(c) He is short
(d) He looks like Melody

11. Then Melody tells Jeff that he is just like ______________ in the way that he waits for her to get him.
(a) A little boy
(b) His father
(c) A man
(d) A polite person

12. What must Jeff hurry to do as he has stayed at the island for such a long time?
(a) Find his mother
(b) Pack
(c) Catch his flight
(d) Wash his clothes

13. Jeff begins to read all that he can about _____________ in order to feel close to Melody.
(a) The South
(b) Herons
(c) Women
(d) Massachusetts

14. Melody becomes upset with Jeff at first because everyone else has already _____________.
(a) Eaten
(b) Left
(c) Let their food get cold
(d) Gone to work

15. Jeff was once told that his father's ___________ department was in shambles because the Professor didn't publish.
(a) History
(b) Art
(c) Science
(d) English

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeff agree to do with Melody as he feels connected to her when he is going what she wants?

2. Melody tells Jeff she is going out of town to take pictures at a ___________ with her boyfriend for a week.

3. ______________ tells Jeff to go away because he is making her tried.

4. Melody's boyfriend tells her to not be any more ______________ "than you can help."

5. The Professor talks to Jeff about how ____________ and helpless Melody made him feel when they were together.

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