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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 honor is bestowed upon George Carver upon graduating from Thornton Academy?
(a) He is a National Merit Finalist.
(b) He is class salutorian for graduation.
(c) He is class valedictorian for graduation.
(d) He is awarded Suma Cum Laude.

2. What does Phillip imagine could interfere next with the peace and quiet of their lives after the death of their fathers?
(a) His sisters.
(b) Holly's siblings.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Clara Price.

3. How long after the move to Nashville does Lewis Shackleford betray Mr. Carver?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. What happens in town when George Carver is born?
(a) Police cars sound their sirens.
(b) Church bells ring and guns are fired.
(c) Firestation sirens are rung.
(d) Firecrackers are set off.

5. What does Holly encourage Phillip to focus on in his family?
(a) Hold a family meeting and demand Father's release from his house.
(b) Try confronting his father about all of his anger.
(c) Go with her to Cleveland to see her father.
(d) Try seeing his father in such a way as to understand him as a human being.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mr. Carver born?

2. How does Phillip feel about his father before the man dies the following spring?

3. What do Alex, Phillip and his father see as they pull into the driveway of the house?

4. What does Phillip realize about Holly?

5. What is Georgie doing during the Saturday outings?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. While George Carver and his wife are in St, Louis for business, what happens to the Mr. Shackleford's company? How does Mr. Carver react to this news?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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. 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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