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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jeff decide to give to Miss Opal from his inheritance?
(a) The ring
(b) The estate
(c) A book
(d) Stocks

2. Jeff realizes he would really treasure the ________________ as a connection to the past.
(a) Stocks
(b) Picture
(c) Jade ring
(d) Engagement ring

3. Who does Jeff see riding his bike during the icy rain, so he picks him up in his car?
(a) Phil
(b) Sammy
(c) Andy
(d) James

4. When the Professor goes to Baltimore, who does he stay with on these nights?
(a) Gambo
(b) Maxine
(c) Melody
(d) Brother Thomas

5. A girl seems to be drawn against her will by the ______________ when Jeff is outside.
(a) Herons
(b) Wind
(c) Music
(d) Sunshine

6. Who is the girl that Jeff meets when he is playing his guitar, though she leaves abruptly the first time?
(a) Abgail Tillerman
(b) Janice Proeson
(c) Dicey Tillerman
(d) Julie Rosen

7. Jeff realizes that Dicey is as private and solitary in her grief as _____________.
(a) Melody
(b) The Professor
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) He is

8. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.
(a) An older man
(b) Not like his father
(c) A baby
(d) A girl

9. Who called the Professor and told him about Jeff's performance in school, though Jeff had tried to hide it?
(a) The principal
(b) Melody
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) No one, the Professor knew

10. Dicey asks Jeff to go _____________ and he almost says no, but accepts and is glad that he did.
(a) To her room
(b) To the prom
(c) To the bar
(d) Sailing

11. Jeff feels sorry for Melody who never knew what the real ____________ were, according to him.
(a) Prizes
(b) Pictures
(c) Treasures
(d) Herons

12. Sammy tells Jeff that Sammy's mother was more than just one _______________.
(a) Patient
(b) Bad thing
(c) Mother
(d) Diagnosis

13. When Dicey's ______________ dies, Jeff understands and he knows to leave her alone.
(a) Brother
(b) Sister
(c) Father
(d) Mother

14. Brother Thomas tells Jeff that he will finally have to tell the Professor what he is ______________.
(a) Afraid of
(b) Feeling
(c) Hiding
(d) Carrying

15. The lawyer that is coming to visit the Professor and Jeff is the lawyer of ______________.
(a) Miss Opal
(b) Melody
(c) Max
(d) Gambo

Short Answer Questions

1. That summer, Jeff decides to set up a _____________ business with the Tillermans.

2. What does Jeff begin to do as a result of running away from his school work?

3. Melody asks if they can put everything behind them and Jeff says that he ______________.

4. Where do Jeff and the Professor decide to talk when they are ready to talk?

5. Where did Dicey and her siblings travel from when their mother was put into a hospital?

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