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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holly encourage Phillip to focus on in his family?
(a) Try confronting his father about all of his anger.
(b) Hold a family meeting and demand Father's release from his house.
(c) Go with her to Cleveland to see her father.
(d) Try seeing his father in such a way as to understand him as a human being.

2. What adventures do Betsy and Josephine write and tell Phillip about concerning their father?
(a) Dancing with young women in bars.
(b) Golf outings with older women.
(c) Fishing trips with friends.
(d) Dating older women.

3. Who is Howard's father?
(a) Alex Mercer.
(b) Lewis Shackleford.
(c) Joe Carver
(d) Georgie Manning.

4. How is George Carver regarded by the townspeople?
(a) He is a spoiled brat.
(b) He is raised without manners.
(c) He is born under a lucky star.
(d) He is born under a bad sign.

5. Once back in their routines together, Alex and Holly find themselves talking about what subject?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Caring for their parents but not wanting to see them.
(c) Having a baby.
(d) Going to Memphis to see Alex's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Phillip believe his father goes to the same nightclubs as his daughters?

2. What sports do the girls take up in Memphis?

3. How do Betsy and Josephine refer to the women Mr. Carver begins dating after he dates older women?

4. What tone infects Betsy's written description of the people with whom her father is night clubbing?

5. How do Betsy and Josephine initially react to their father's dating?

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