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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Carver say to Alex and Phillip after speaking with the minister?
(a) "I want to move to Manhattan with you, Phillip."
(b) "I want to get to the airport and see Mrs. Stockwell off."
(c) "I want to stop at the Red Lantern on the way home."
(d) "I want to get home and see what the girls have prepared for me."

2. Where do Alex, Phillip and Mr. Carver go after leaving the church?
(a) To Alex's house.
(b) To the airport.
(c) Back to Mr. Carver's home.
(d) To a neighborhood bar for a beer.

3. What does Phillip give Holly upon his return from Memphis?
(a) The clover pendant.
(b) An engagement ring.
(c) A new coat.
(d) A diamond bracelet.

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

5. What does Phillip do two days after returning to New York?
(a) He writes a letter to his father about his sisters.
(b) He calls Alex and says he cannot come to Memphis.
(c) He asks Holly to travel to Europe with him.
(d) He begins a series of weekly phone calls with his father.

6. What is happening at Mr. Carver's home?
(a) Betsy and Josephine are moving into Mr. Carver's home.
(b) Maud and Horace are moving out.
(c) The movers are delivering furniture Father had recently purchased.
(d) Betsy and Josephine are moving their father's things out of the house.

7. What does Phillip realize on his trip home to Memphis?
(a) It is time to forgive his family for being so strange.
(b) It is time to confront his sisters about their nighttime behavior.
(c) It is time to confront his father about the move to Memphis.
(d) It is time to forget his father's wrongdoings.

8. Six weeks after the weekend visit, why do Phillip's sisters call?
(a) Father has decided to visit Mr. Shacklefore in Nashville for six weeks.
(b) Father is dying in the hospital.
(c) Father has decided to marry Mrs. Stockwell again
(d) Father is writing a new will.

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

10. What are some of Mr. Carver's earliest remembered adventures?
(a) Fishing and swimming ar Forked Deer Farm.
(b) Hunting and skeet shooting at the country hunting range.
(c) Swimming and hunting at Town Farm.
(d) Hunting and fishing at Forked Deer Farm.

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

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

13. In Chapter 8, what is one thing Phillip imagines his father will do next?
(a) Wait three months for Mrs. Stockwell to return.
(b) Begin drinking heavily.
(c) Lock himself in his room.
(d) Take a safari to Africa.

14. How does Phillip react when Betsy and Josephine say they will return to their real estate business?
(a) He encourages them to stay at home.
(b) He tells them they should move into their own homes.
(c) He wants them to and tells them so.
(d) He knows it is not true.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the two families often do together on Saturdays?

3. How do the people in his family and of the town treat Mr. Carver when he is young?

4. How does Phillip describe himself and Holly?

5. What do Alex, Phillip and his father see as they pull into the driveway of the house?

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