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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginny remembers back when she was young that she ate 27 __________ while she was sitting on the toilet.
(a) Raw pieces of pasta
(b) Gum drops
(c) Baby aspirins
(d) Peanuts

2. For the first time, _________ believes she really feels herself, that she can speak with a certain moral authority.
(a) Ginny
(b) Linda
(c) Rose
(d) Caroline

3. Who calls after midnight wanting to talk, which causes the other person on the line to come over to talk?
(a) Caroline
(b) Rose
(c) Jess
(d) Ginny

4. 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.
(a) Clean water
(b) Black water
(c) Brown water
(d) No water

5. ___________ just wants the plates that Larry ate off but nothing else that might be on the farm.
(a) Ginny
(b) Caroline
(c) Jess
(d) Loren

6. Ginny remembers giggling with Rose over the phone when Rose was away at __________.
(a) Summer camp
(b) The farm
(c) College
(d) Work training

7. __________ manage a decent funeral for Peter because others aren't around to help Rose and Ginny.
(a) Ty and Loren
(b) The church people
(c) The men
(d) Caroline's friends

8. Rose knows that __________ sees her differently than other men see her and that their physical attraction will fade in time.
(a) Jess
(b) Loren
(c) Ty
(d) Pete

9. Pete gets drunk and drives over to threaten ________ and then drives off into the quarry where he actually drowns.
(a) Harold
(b) Jess
(c) Loren
(d) Larry

10. ___________ tells Ginny and Caroline they can take any personal possessions they want from the house and farm.
(a) Loren
(b) Marv
(c) Joe
(d) Eric

11. Rose curses _______ for all the pain he has caused Pammy and Linda in their lives, intentional or not.
(a) Larry
(b) Pete
(c) Jess
(d) Loren

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

13. Ty hopes for ____________ so he can begin harvesting early on the farm and start seeing the results of his work.
(a) The approval of Harold
(b) The approval of Ginny
(c) Good weather
(d) A new tractor

14. Ginny finds out that ________ had a heart attack while pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle.
(a) Larry
(b) Loren
(c) Jess
(d) Ty

15. Rose's legacy to her daughters was her __________, her way of looking things, according to Ginny.
(a) Life
(b) Strength
(c) Courage
(d) Honesty

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ was always patient and good humored, always moving slowly forward.

2. The harvest is more successful for __________ than it is for the neighbors, which proves this person is the better farmer.

3. __________ cooks for the crew and is thanked for the home-cooked meal as a result.

4. Feeling too awkward to go to the pool to swim, Ginny heads over to the ___________.

5. Larry's whereabouts are discussed, but Rose says that not knowing his location is ___________ for her.

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