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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Monopoly players find out about the wedding ceremony of the person they know well?
(a) Newspaper
(b) Phone
(c) Priest
(d) Someone in the group lets it slip

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

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

4. Jess' father decided to take the day off from ____________ planting to host the pig roast for his son.
(a) Wheat
(b) Spring bean
(c) Lettuce
(d) Corn

5. Spurning dry clothes, Larry had insisted that his ________ and banker be summoned in the storm.
(a) Caroline
(b) Lawyer
(c) Daughters
(d) Wife

6. Jess decides to explain to others what the _______________ is and how it works after dismissing the idea of Larry changing his will.
(a) Nature Conservancy
(b) Peace Corp
(c) Works Progress Progress
(d) MoveOn

7. As the storm clouds form on the horizon, a ___________ is already issued for the country surrounding and including the farm.
(a) Tornado warning
(b) Thunderstorm warning
(c) Thunderstorm watch
(d) Tornado watch

8. What did Ginny forget on her way to the Chelsea that makes her turn around to go back to get them?
(a) Milk
(b) Flour
(c) Sugar
(d) Eggs

9. Who upends the Monopoly game in Pete's lap when she hears the news of the unknown wedding?
(a) Caroline
(b) Ginny
(c) Rose
(d) Jess

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

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

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

13. What was revealed under the marshland that once stood in the farm area that Larry now owns?
(a) A river
(b) Fertile soil
(c) Clay
(d) Natural crops

14. __________ 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) Rose
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Loren

15. What does Rose say that she wishes she hadn't done after the incident with Larry staggering down the road?
(a) Quit smoking
(b) Stayed in town
(c) Said anything
(d) Had children

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ginny finally falls asleep, she wakes up to Jess telling her that Larry is at ____________.

2. Caroline calls and says she had just returned from New York and found a note on her desk saying ____________ had driven to Des Moines to find her.

3. Rose notes that Larry's abuse was not that she had been raped, but that she had been ___________.

4. Larry is whining to everyone at the picnic instead of waiting for people to talk to him, mostly about the conditions at the _________.

5. After a church service, Ginny urges _________ to make amends with Larry as she thinks it's the right thing to do.

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