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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Ginny's _______ birthday, her husband, Ty, stops by the restaurant where she still works as a waitress.
(a) 40th
(b) 30th
(c) 39th
(d) 35th

2. The autopsy of Pete shows that his _____________ was high enough to preclude consciousness, making it debatable that he drove in accidentally.
(a) Cholesterol level
(b) Medication level
(c) Stress level
(d) Blood alcohol level

3. Who surprises Ginny when she goes for a swim as they are throwing rocks into the water?
(a) Jess
(b) Loren
(c) Larry
(d) Pete

4. Henry Dodge say that families function better when they _____________, so he wants the family to try to repair itself.
(a) Stay together
(b) Break apart
(c) Ignore the past
(d) Forgive

5. The funeral is orchestrated, at least to some degree, for the benefit of ___________.
(a) The girls
(b) Harold
(c) Rose
(d) Larry

6. What part of the farm was bulldozed, though the remaining daughters didn't seem to care much?
(a) Chelsea
(b) The main coop
(c) Dairy farm
(d) Hog farm

7. Larry's whereabouts are discussed, but Rose says that not knowing his location is ___________ for her.
(a) Confusing
(b) Freedom
(c) Painful
(d) Okay

8. What does Ginny stop to eat on her way up to St. Paul, Minnesota, as she is leaving Ty?
(a) Baked potato
(b) Hot dog
(c) Pork chop
(d) Steak

9. Where does Ginny drive in order to find out what the townsfolk are saying about Larry and the rest of the family as the pastor will not reveal anything?
(a) Des Moines
(b) Chicago
(c) Cabot
(d) Cedar Rapids

10. Ginny and Rose are said to have wrecked the dreams of the character in #100, and that what ___________ did to them was their fault.
(a) Caroline
(b) Marv
(c) Ty
(d) Larry

11. While Jess returned to the Pacific Northwest, Rose and her girls are going to remain _____________.
(a) In touch with Harold
(b) Married to him
(c) Vegetarian
(d) A part of his life

12. The lawsuit of Caroline and Larry against Ty and Ginny, Rose and Pete is found to be __________ by the judge.
(a) Settled
(b) Frivolous
(c) Interesting
(d) Inexcusable

13. Caroline believes that she and ____________ became close and that they only separated when she was cut out of the farm for a time.
(a) Rose
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Ginny

14. Who reminds Ginny of Rose? This person is a music education major at the local college.
(a) Tara
(b) Pammy
(c) Jess
(d) Linda

15. Ginny goes out to stand on one of the bolted drainage wells, listening to the eternal __________, then goes to the barn.
(a) Trickling
(b) Silence
(c) Wind
(d) Roosters

Short Answer Questions

1. What was not present on the bedsheets after Ty and Ginny had consummated their relationship for the first time, even though they prepared for it to be there?

2. Ginny finds out that ________ had a heart attack while pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle.

3. Caroline tries to turn on the faucet, but there is ______________ as she talks about the idea that her memory of Larry is just what a father's memory should be.

4. Rose curses _______ for all the pain he has caused Pammy and Linda in their lives, intentional or not.

5. What did Caroline want to do that Larry would have disapproved of, at least it was fairly certain he would?

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