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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Holly and Phillip decide to do with their inheritances?
(a) Buy new furniture.
(b) Buy a larger apartment.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Travel.

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

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

5. Where does the family see Lewis Shackleford?
(a) Walking out of the restaurant.
(b) At a gas station.
(c) Walking toward the Carver family in the restaurant.
(d) Driving back to Nashville.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Father say to Betsy and Josephine inside the house?
(a) "Why are you moving into my house?"
(b) "Please leave me alone."
(c) "Welcome home, girls."
(d) "What are we having for lunch?"

11. What does Phillip realize about his father moving the family to Memphis?
(a) His father moved there for spite.
(b) His father behaved selfishly for no reason.
(c) His father did not ask everyone if they wanted to move.
(d) His father did not take into account the psyches of his wife and children.

12. What happens when Mr. and Mrs. Carver, Georgie and Phillip are in St. Louis on business?
(a) Mr. Shackleford robs a savings and loan.
(b) Mr. Shackleford loses an envelope containing half a million dollars cash.
(c) Mr. Shackleford is accused of mortgaging company landholdings.
(d) Mr. Shackleford disappears with the company assets.

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

14. Where do Holly and Phillip acquire much of their furnishings?
(a) Old estate sales and junk stores.
(b) The neighbors' cast offs.
(c) Their parents.
(d) The alley behind their apartment.

15. 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."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Phillip allow Alex to park his car?

2. How do the Shacklefords greet the Carvers when they arrive in Nashville?

3. How does Phillip react when Betsy and Josephine say they will return to their real estate business?

4. Where does Phillip travel to meet his family for a weekend get together?

5. How does Phillip describe himself and Holly?

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