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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ says it's too much to walk a block and a half on an 87 degree day and that Ginny should wait in the car.
(a) Larry
(b) Loren
(c) Rose
(d) Jess

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

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

4. Jess says that Ginny doesn't have children because there are ___________ in the well water at the farm.
(a) Vitamins
(b) Nitrites
(c) Barbituates
(d) Antidepressants

5. Jess asks Ginny who Larry's favorite was of all of his girls as they are talking to each other. Who is the favorite?
(a) Ginny
(b) Caroline
(c) None of them
(d) Rose

6. __________ is complaining about the new red air conditioned Harvester tractor that was recently purchased.
(a) Larry
(b) Loren
(c) Jess
(d) Harold

7. Ginny thinks back to when her house used to be owned by the ___________.
(a) Smiths
(b) Cooks
(c) Ericsons
(d) Chelseas

8. Who is the narrator of the story who begins the story by describing the setting where they grew up?
(a) Larry
(b) Caroline
(c) Ginny
(d) Rose

9. ___________ is currently cooking three meals a day for three households.
(a) Ginny
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Rose

10. On Wednesday, what does Ginny wander around to find as she used to go there as a child?
(a) The neighbor's house
(b) Old pond
(c) The woods
(d) The swings

11. What does Larry say to Ginny--something that Ty thinks Ginny should hear face-to-face with her father?
(a) Barren whore
(b) Barren slut
(c) Hussy
(d) Mother's mistake

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

13. _________ does not respond to any of Ty and Ginny's questions, neither in the hospital or in the car on the drive home.
(a) Caroline
(b) Rose
(c) Larry
(d) Jess

14. Ginny's mother had not been afraid of _________, but afraid of the life her daughters would lead after that happened.
(a) Farm life
(b) Dying
(c) Poverty
(d) Larry's abuse

15. Ginny fears that __________ had sensed something between her and Jess but she wasn't sure.
(a) Larry
(b) Rose
(c) Ty
(d) Caroline

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who starts acting with more authority now that Larry has rolled his truck, something that this person had not done before?

3. Henry Dodge is a ___________ minister who is always giving sermons which will appeal to the farmers.

4. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?

5. What does Jess ask Ginny to do when he surprises her by showing up at her house?

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