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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Mr. Carver and Mr. Shackleford greet each other in the restaurant?
(a) They embrace.
(b) They begin arguing.
(c) They mumble hello and ignore each other.
(d) They shake hands and smile.

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

3. 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.

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

5. How does Phillip react to his sisters when inside the house?
(a) He immediately made a plane reservation to leave that evening.
(b) He changes his clothes for dinner.
(c) He makes a reservation to take a train home the following morning.
(d) He hugs them both and thanks them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the family see Lewis Shackleford?

2. Who does Phillip see on the other side of the restaurant?

3. What is Georgie doing during the Saturday outings?

4. What does Phillip realize about Holly?

5. What does Mr. Carver say to Alex and Phillip after speaking with the minister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Betsy's stated reason for Father not going to see Lewis Shackleford in Chapter 11? What is the real reason?

2. In Chapter 9, Phillip visits Holly in her apartment in the hopes of a reconciliation. What do the two of them talk about for the first time openly and honestly? What has happened in Holly's life during their separation?

3. In Chapter 11, Phillip allows Alex's car to remain in the driveway which blocks his father's car from exiting. What debate might be waging in his mind while he delays his father's departure?

4. In Chapter 7, what happens at the church? How does Mr. Carver react to the news? What does he say to Alex and Phillip?

5. In Chapter 8, Betsy and Josephine have prepared a bed for Phillip in their father's study. However, Phillip does not stay. He leaves his father and sisters and returns to New York. Why does he not remain and defend his father against his sisters? Why does Phillip leave so hastily?

6. In Chapter 11, Phillip puts together the story of his family's intrusion into his father's love affair with Clara Price. What does he realize, and how?

7. During the drive from the church to Mr. Carver's home in Chapter 8, Phillip begins thinking of what his father might do next. What things does he think are possible? Why does he believe his father might do any of them?

8. In Chapter 12, Phillip begins calling his father on a weekly basis. Why are those calls important to Phillip?

9. In Chapter 9, both Phillip and Holly begin to understand their fathers and see them as people. Holly encourages them both to go beyond forgiveness and forgetting and aspire to true understanding. How does Phillip remember his father's life growing up?

10. In Chapter 10, why does George Carver move the family to Nashville when Phillip is five years old? Where does the family live? How does he establish himself and his family in town?

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