View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Carver react to the news Betsy brought?
(a) He says, "You are all driving me crazy."
(b) He says, "Well, Phillip, please leave now."
(c) He says, "I don't believe it!" belligerently.
(d) He says, "I couldn't care less."

2. How does Mr. Carver react to Phillip's arrival?
(a) He is happy but confused.
(b) He is relieved the plane did not crash.
(c) He is frustrated because Phillip did not call ahead of time.
(d) He is elated and asks Phillip to be his best man.

3. How are Betsy and Josephine dressed when Phillip and Father walk into the house?
(a) Both are in wild clothing.
(b) Both are wearing jeans and a button down shirt.
(c) Both are in fancy dresses and jewelry.
(d) Both are in brand new, modest gingham housedresses.

4. When does Holly's father die?
(a) He does not die.
(b) A year after Phillip's father.
(c) The year before Phillp's father.
(d) The winter before Phillip's father.

5. When Phillip sees his father for the weekend getaway, how does Mr. Carver look?
(a) He has lost his ability to walk without assistance.
(b) He is feeble and unhappy.
(c) He seems to have shrunken, his hair has thinned, and his sight is bad.
(d) He seems to be healthier and happier than ever.

6. What is Phillip certain of in Chapter 8?
(a) The minister talked Mrs. Stockwell out of the marriage.
(b) Alex had a part in the situation.
(c) His sisters influenced Mrs. Stockwell not to marry Mr. Carver.
(d) His sisters hired someone to threaten Mrs. Stockwell.

7. What does Phillip realize about his sisters while at the restaurant?
(a) They had asked Phillip to come for no reason
(b) They were intentionally poisoning Father.
(c) They meddled in his love affair long ago.
(d) They were both engaged to be married.

8. What happens in town when George Carver is born?
(a) Church bells ring and guns are fired.
(b) Firecrackers are set off.
(c) Firestation sirens are rung.
(d) Police cars sound their sirens.

9. What do Alex and Holly talk about when he goes to see her at her apartment?
(a) Where they would like their next apartment to be.
(b) Who she has been dating since moving out.
(c) Their families and the death of Holly's mother.
(d) How to move Holly's things back into their apartment.

10. What does Phillip imagine could interfere next with the peace and quiet of their lives after the death of their fathers?
(a) His sisters.
(b) Clara Price.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Holly's siblings.

11. How do the Shacklefords greet the Carvers when they arrive in Nashville?
(a) They say hello and send them to their new home.
(b) They are not home when the Carvers arrive.
(c) They are angry at being awakened in the middle of the night.
(d) They welcome them and insist they spend the night.

12. Where does Phillip allow Alex to park his car?
(a) Around the back of the house.
(b) Blocking the exit for Mr. Carver's car to leave.
(c) In front of the garage.
(d) At the side door of the house.

13. When the Carvers return to Nashville, and the story comes out in the press, what does Mr. Carver say to his family?
(a) He wants to shoot Shackleford.
(b) He never wants to hear the name Lewis Shackleford spoken again.
(c) He never should have moved from Thornton.
(d) He never wants to go into business with anyone again.

14. Who does Phillip call to meet him at the airport?
(a) Georgie.
(b) Howard.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Alex.

15. How does Phillip feel about his father before the man dies the following spring?
(a) They can never forget the past.
(b) His father really is an ogre.
(c) They are able to talk of things they could not when face-to-face.
(d) They have nothing in common.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Phillip draw from his father's behavior in the car?

2. What did Holly imagine she would do when she leaves Cleveland and moves to New York fifteen years before?

3. Where do Holly and Phillip acquire much of their furnishings?

4. What is happening at Mr. Carver's home?

5. What does Phillip come to realize his father has yearned for all of his life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 770 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample