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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 did the two families often do together on Saturdays?
(a) Fox hunt at the nearby forest.
(b) Swim at the Franklin public pool.
(c) Picnic in the city park.
(d) Ride horses on the Shackleford land.

2. What does Phillip realize about Holly?
(a) She does not like receiving gifts.
(b) She must have had a serious lover just as he did long ago.
(c) She probably wants to have children.
(d) She works very hard at her job.

3. What is the name of the book Lewis Shackleford gives to George Carver?
(a) The Autobiography of Karl Marx.
(b) My Autobiography by Abraham Lincoln.
(c) The Biography of Mussolini.
(d) My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini.

4. How are Betsy and Josephine dressed when Phillip and Father walk into the house?
(a) Both are wearing jeans and a button down shirt.
(b) Both are in wild clothing.
(c) Both are in brand new, modest gingham housedresses.
(d) Both are in fancy dresses and jewelry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holly encourage Phillip to focus on in his family?

2. What is happening at Mr. Carver's home?

3. How does Mr. Carver react to the news Betsy brought?

4. Where do Holly and Phillip acquire much of their furnishings?

5. Where does the family see Lewis Shackleford?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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