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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the task Ginny is trying to accomplish, one that takes her until noon that morning?
(a) Polishing the wood
(b) Cleaning carpets
(c) Dusting
(d) Washing dishes

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

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

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

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

6. After Ginny finally falls asleep, she wakes up to Jess telling her that Larry is at ____________.
(a) Loren's
(b) Harold's
(c) Rose's
(d) The jail

7. Where would this new operation in #64 be situated once the loans and paperwork were in order?
(a) Dairy barn
(b) Abandoned house
(c) A newly tilled field
(d) Chicken coop

8. Pammy and Linda decide to play with each other in another part of ________ house as the parents are playing a game.
(a) Larry's
(b) Harold's
(c) Ginny's
(d) Rose's

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

10. Who arrives late to breakfast the day after the pig roast, even though the rest of the family was there and ready on time?
(a) Larry
(b) Rose
(c) Loren
(d) Ginny

11. Pammy tells Ginny that Rose left instructions not to let _________ into their house if no other adults were present.
(a) Loren
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Harold

12. Jess gushes about a nearby organic farm that seeing its 20 varieties of non-hybrid __________ is like meeting the Buddha.
(a) Lettuce
(b) Potatoes
(c) Apples
(d) Tomatoes

13. Which doctor appointment does Ginny drive Rose to on a Thursday as Rose cannot go by herself?
(a) Dentist
(b) Eye
(c) Heart
(d) Oncologist

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

15. Jess mentions he has 13 years of experience in ___________ farming as well as a shallow understanding of Buddhism.
(a) Pig
(b) Chicken
(c) Organic
(d) Corn

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Ty's father died from?

2. What is the profession of Marv Carlson, the man who ends up helping Larry Cook throughout the story?

3. How old is the narrator when the story opens and the description of the farm is being shared with the reader?

4. Ginny takes her nieces, Pammy and Linda, to the __________ swimming pool on a hot and windy Friday in June.

5. What is the name of the road that Country Road 686 intersects with, according to the narrator?

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