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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Betsy bring to Father as he is waiting to leave for Nashville?
(a) Josephine is engaged to be married.
(b) The stock market has just crashed.
(c) Lewis Shackleford died in his sleep the night before.
(d) Lewis Shackleford called and cancelled the plans.

2. Where does Phillip first see Clara?
(a) On the army post.
(b) At the top of Lookout Mountain.
(c) At the entrance to the park.
(d) In the library.

3. What do Betsy and Josephine tell Phillip in Chapter 8?
(a) He will have to sleep on the sofa in the living room.
(b) His bed is ready in Father's study.
(c) He can use the room in the cabana out back.
(d) He may sleep in his old room at the top of the stairs.

4. While in high school, what does Phillip begin collecting?
(a) Baseball and football trading cards.
(b) Rare books and first editions.
(c) LP's and 45's.
(d) Comics and action heros.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Phillip when the family moves to Memphis?

2. What is the name of the street on which the family first lives in Memphis?

3. Where do Holly and Phillip live?

4. Where is Phillip's mother born and raised?

5. What does Phillip do with his sisters' letters describing his father's nighttime activities?

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