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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What thing does Philip remember most clearly about the moves in his life?

2. How long after the move to Nashville does Lewis Shackleford betray Mr. Carver?

3. With whom does Mrs. Carver spend much of her time on the Saturday outings?

4. What do Betsy and Josephine tell Phillip in Chapter 8?

5. What happens when Mr. and Mrs. Carver, Georgie and Phillip are in St. Louis on business?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Phillip gives us a glimpse of Holly's life. How do we learn about Holly and how she fits into her family?

2. 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?

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

4. In Chapter 7, Phillip compares the life he knows in his father's house in Memphis and his apartment in New York. How do the two residences differ? How does Phillip feel about the contents of his family home in Memphis and the contents of his apartment?

5. 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?

6. At the end of Chapter 12, what does the reader know about all of the main characters?

7. 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?

8. In Chapter 9, Phillip explains the difference between his father and Alex Mercer as an important factor in their friendship. What is this difference?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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