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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What honor is bestowed upon George Carver upon graduating from Thornton Academy?
(a) He is class salutorian for graduation.
(b) He is awarded Suma Cum Laude.
(c) He is class valedictorian for graduation.
(d) He is a National Merit Finalist.

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

3. What do Betsy and Josephine tell Phillip in Chapter 8?
(a) His bed is ready in Father's study.
(b) He will have to sleep on the sofa in the living room.
(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. What kind of car does Mr. Carver drive?
(a) A twenty year old Cadillac.
(b) A ten year old Rolls.
(c) A five year old Mercedes.
(d) A fifteen year old convertible.

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

6. How do the people in his family and of the town treat Mr. Carver when he is young?
(a) As one of them.
(b) Like a middle child.
(c) As a bully.
(d) Like a little prince.

7. How does Lewis Shackleford view Mr. Carver?
(a) As a heel and a clod.
(b) As a country gentleman with agrarian traditions.
(c) As a shrewd businessman.
(d) As a clever and funny man.

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

9. What does the family decide to do together on Phillip's last day together?
(a) Have Sunday midday dinner together at the Inn's restaurant.
(b) Drive together and take Phillip to the airport.
(c) Take a Sunday afternoon drive in the country.
(d) Drive to another town for dinner.

10. Who does Phillip see on the other side of the restaurant?
(a) Wyant Brawley, his wife and their children.
(b) Clarkson Manning, his wife and their children.
(c) Clara Stockwell and her husband.
(d) Clara Price, her husband and children.

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

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

13. What do Alex, Phillip and his father see as they pull into the driveway of the house?
(a) An ambulance.
(b) A moving van.
(c) Newspaper reporters.
(d) A new car in the driveway.

14. What does Phillip realize about Holly?
(a) She probably wants to have children.
(b) She works very hard at her job.
(c) She must have had a serious lover just as he did long ago.
(d) She does not like receiving gifts.

15. What news does Mr. Carver have for Phillip?
(a) He has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
(b) He has earned a great deal of money on an oil well.
(c) He is getting married.
(d) He has lost his desire to marry anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once back in their routines together, Alex and Holly find themselves talking about what subject?

2. How does Phillip describe himself and Holly?

3. What does Phillip know about Alex Mercer after Mr. Carver dies?

4. How does Mr. Carver react to the news Betsy brought?

5. What news does Betsy bring to Father as he is waiting to leave for Nashville?

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