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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. What is Mr. Carver doing in the car in Chapter 8?
(a) Working out something in his head.
(b) Crying.
(c) Screaming in anger.
(d) Talking to Phillip and Alex.

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

3. How does Phillip feel about the furnishings in his house?
(a) He is angry at Holly for wanting them.
(b) He does not care about any of them.
(c) He is proud of them.
(d) He is attached to them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phillip give Holly upon his return from Memphis?

2. How does Mr. Carver react to Phillip's arrival?

3. How does Phillip describe himself and Holly?

4. What is the name of the book Lewis Shackleford gives to George Carver?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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 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?

4. While at Sunday supper with his family at Owl Mountain in Chapter 11, Phillip sees both Clara Price and Lewis Shackleford in the dining room. How does Phillip react to both of these important people?

5. In Chapter 10, Phillip comes to a realization about his father and the move to Memphis. What does he decide regarding his father's move with the family to a new city to begin again?

6. While flying to Memphis in Chapter 7, Philip thinks about his course of action with his sister who he fears are planning vengeance on their father. What does Phillip want to convince the sisters to do?

7. In Chapter 12, Phillip gives the four leaf clover pendant to Holly. How does she respond? What does Phillip know from her response?

8. In Chapter 10, how does Lewis Shackleford see his friend, George Carver? What traits does he admire in his friend?

9. In Chapter 8, how does Phillip react to his sisters' actions? How does Alex react?

10. 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?

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