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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who bought the air-conditioned International Harvester tractor in a bright red color, which annoyed Larry?
(a) Loren
(b) Ty
(c) Harold
(d) Jess

2. Larry purchases new ______________ he doesn't need and leaves them outside where they get ruined by the rain.
(a) Pillows
(b) Kitchen cabinets
(c) Sheets
(d) Tractors

3. _____________ does not wear the customary goggles and accidentally sprays himself with anhydrous ammonia.
(a) Jess
(b) Larry
(c) Harold
(d) Loren

4. Who is discovered to have been married in a civil ceremony the week before as the family is playing Monopoly?
(a) Jess
(b) Larry
(c) Loren
(d) Caroline

5. What is the game the next generation at the farm begins to play which ends up taking about two weeks?
(a) Monopoly
(b) Rummy
(c) Yahtzee
(d) Poker

6. What do Rose and Ginny decide to do because the doctor appointment goes so well?
(a) Go to a bar
(b) Go home early
(c) Go to the zoo
(d) Go shopping

7. Who drives to Cabot to talk to Henry Dodge, though she bolts from his office as soon as he appears, without talking to him?
(a) Francine
(b) Rose
(c) Caroline
(d) Ginny

8. What does Ginny imagine in the middle of her own pickup when she goes to get inside of the truck?
(a) Baby seat
(b) Another man
(c) Her daughter
(d) Basket

9. How old is the narrator when the story opens and the description of the farm is being shared with the reader?
(a) 20
(b) 9
(c) 14
(d) 8

10. Ginny's grandparents were the ones who arrived from ____________ to find their new farm land to not be up to their expectations.
(a) Germany
(b) England
(c) France
(d) Italy

11. What does Rose exclaim she wants to eat when she is out on her fancy dinner of celebration?
(a) Bread
(b) Potatoes
(c) Meat
(d) Chocolate

12. What did Larry do to the Ericson farm right after his wife died?
(a) Gave it to Harold
(b) Burned it down
(c) Boarded it up
(d) Moved in

13. Who found Larry when he was raging, soaked, and maniacal during the storm?
(a) Jess
(b) Harold
(c) Loren
(d) Rose

14. Rose thinks that Larry is perfecting his _______________ as he will continue to do during his retirement.
(a) Death's fercent gaze
(b) Death's head start
(c) Poker face
(d) Quiet march to silence

15. Ginny wonders how many ___________ visits it might take to cure Larry and Rose after what happened.
(a) Psychiatric
(b) Medical
(c) Optometrical
(d) Rehabilitation

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with the farmland when Ginny's grandparents arrived in the United States?

2. What does the buffet table usually have an overabundance of when they set up for the picnic for the church's 1903 founding?

3. Ginny cannot think of ________ without thinking of her room, which she cannot think of without thinking of her father.

4. Pammy tells Ginny that Rose left instructions not to let _________ into their house if no other adults were present.

5. Where would this new operation in #64 be situated once the loans and paperwork were in order?

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