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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do Holly and Phillip acquire much of their furnishings?
2. How is George Carver regarded by the townspeople?
3. What do Holly and Phillip decide to do with their inheritances?
4. When the Carvers return to Nashville, and the story comes out in the press, what does Mr. Carver say to his family?
5. How does Mr. Carver react to the news Betsy brought?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 10, how does Lewis Shackleford see his friend, George Carver? What traits does he admire in his friend?
2. What is Betsy's stated reason for Father not going to see Lewis Shackleford in Chapter 11? What is the real reason?
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. In Chapter 8, how does Phillip react to his sisters' actions? How does Alex react?
5. In Chapter 8, Alex, Phillip and Father pull up to the house from the church. What is happening as they arrive? Why?
6. At the end of Chapter 12, what does the reader know about all of the main characters?
7. 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?
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. In Chapter 7, what happens at the church? How does Mr. Carver react to the news? What does he say to Alex and Phillip?
10. In Chapter 11, Phillip puts together the story of his family's intrusion into his father's love affair with Clara Price. What does he realize, and how?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Are Betsy and Josephine justified in preventing Father from marrying and cloistering him in his home with their constant oversight? Defend your position.
Essay Topic 2
The novel is set in Tennessee, a southern state. Could the author have set the novel in another location, the West or the East coast, or is this a uniquely Southern novel? Would the novel work if it were set in New York City?
Essay Topic 3
Phillip flies home from New York and from the plane, can see his father waving to him. Describe the scene at the airport, and compare this to the later scene in front of the church. How does Phillip react to his father in these scenes?
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