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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Melody tells Jeff she is going out of town to take pictures at a ___________ with her boyfriend for a week.
(a) Rock concert
(b) New museum
(c) County fair
(d) Folk festival

2. Where does Brother Thomas reveal he will be studying for the next year?
(a) Yale
(b) Harvard
(c) Oxford
(d) MIT

3. Which animal impresses Jeff with its solitude as he looks out the window of the bus?
(a) Chicken
(b) Deer
(c) Hawk
(d) Heron

4. When Melody does arrive at the airport, he is immediately stunned by her ____________ once more.
(a) Haggard appearance
(b) Beauty
(c) Long hair
(d) Thinness

5. Where does Brother Thomas decide to take Jeff when he learns Jeff has not eaten?
(a) Fast food restaurant
(b) Straight home
(c) To the monastery
(d) A diner

6. Jeff rejects the Professor's offer to buy him _____________ as he wants that link to be Melody's alone.
(a) A bus ticket
(b) A plane ticket
(c) A car
(d) Guitar lessons

7. Jeff becomes talented at reading the Professor's ____________ and figuring out what he might want.
(a) Expressions
(b) Emails
(c) Notes
(d) Books

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

9. The Professor admits that Melody was often ___________ with him - first by his inability to first buy a big engagement ring and then buy a house.
(a) Happy
(b) Angry
(c) Disappointed
(d) Amused

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

11. Melody's boyfriend refuses to bring Jeff to a party he is working that night. What is the profession of the boyfriend?
(a) Publicist
(b) Photographer
(c) Celebrity
(d) Caterer

12. Who comes for dinner the day after Christmas to eat with Jeff and the Professor?
(a) Dicey Tillerman
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Dr. Baker
(d) Melody

13. Who is waiting to pick up Jeff when he arrives back home from his visit with Melody?
(a) Jackson
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Ian
(d) The Professor

14. During what month does Melody decide to finally leave the Professor and Jeff?
(a) March
(b) January
(c) February
(d) May

15. When Jeff cries in his bed after Melody leaves again, he can't believe how easy he was to _____________.
(a) Break
(b) Upset
(c) Leave
(d) Cry

Short Answer Questions

1. Jeff sees himself as Melody's _____________, faithful no matter what.

2. Jeff realizes he can hear the joking between Thomas and the Professor and enjoy the conversation because of ____________.

3. When Jeff isn't home when Melody comes home for a bit, how does she feel toward him?

4. Melody becomes upset with Jeff at first because everyone else has already _____________.

5. At what time was Jeff's plane supposed to leave, which gave him little time to make it?

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