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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. Where does Mr. Carver always buy his hats?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Memphis.
(d) St. Louis.

2. How does Phillip feel about his father before the man dies the following spring?
(a) His father really is an ogre.
(b) They are able to talk of things they could not when face-to-face.
(c) They have nothing in common.
(d) They can never forget the past.

3. What does Phillip know about Alex Mercer after Mr. Carver dies?
(a) Alex and his family moved to Nashville.
(b) Alex lives in Memphis and is chair of the department.
(c) Nothing; the two have not been in contact.
(d) Alex is dealing with his two aging parents.

4. What does Alex do upon arriving at the front door in Chapter 8?
(a) Begins arguing with Horace to move the truck.
(b) Drives away without stopping.
(c) Walks in and confronts Betsy and Josephine.
(d) He refuses to get out of the car and drives away.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Phillips find he identifies with his father one evening?

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

4. How are Betsy and Josephine dressed when Phillip and Father walk into the house?

5. What news does Mr. Carver have for Phillip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When Alex arrives in Memphis in Chapter 7, he sees his father waving to him from the runway. Describe Father's behavior upon seeing Phillip. What is happening that day? How does his father appear to Phillip?

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

6. In Chapter 8, Alex, Phillip and Father pull up to the house from the church. What is happening as they arrive? Why?

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

9. 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?

10. When Mr. Carver dies in Chapter 12, Holly's father also dies. The two of them return to New York after the funerals, and continue their lives together there. Phillip describes them both as "serenely free spirits." What has caused him to characterize himself and Holly in this way?

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