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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. What did Holly imagine she would do when she leaves Cleveland and moves to New York fifteen years before?
2. How are Betsy and Josephine dressed when Phillip and Father walk into the house?
3. What is Alex's plan for Phillip as the two men drive to the airport?
4. Where does the family see Lewis Shackleford?
5. What news does Mr. Carver have for Phillip?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of Chapter 12, what does the reader know about all of the main characters?
2. 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?
3. In Chapter 9, Phillip explains the difference between his father and Alex Mercer as an important factor in their friendship. What is this difference?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 12, Phillip begins calling his father on a weekly basis. Why are those calls important to Phillip?
6. 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?
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. 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?
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. In Chapter 12, Phillip gives the four leaf clover pendant to Holly. How does she respond? What does Phillip know from her response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What is the climactic point in the novel? Is it believable? How does it change the action in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Are Betsy and Josephine justified in preventing Father from marrying and cloistering him in his home with their constant oversight? Defend your position.
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