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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Larry and his other lawyer, ___________, are suing to get the farm back from Rose and Ginny and the others.
(a) Marv
(b) Joseph
(c) Caroline
(d) Terrence

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

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

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

5. What are Pammy and Linda peering at as they begin to walk toward the house in the tableau of hope that Ginny envisions?
(a) Money
(b) Bird
(c) Ditch
(d) Carrot

Short Answer Questions

1. The women from the ___________ had taken everything away from the home of Ginny and Rose after their mother had died.

2. Rose announces she has already fed Larry and that he was ________ because they allowed it.

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

4. What was revealed under the marshland that once stood in the farm area that Larry now owns?

5. Marv was worried about Larry and the line of credit that Larry had extended to __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Jess in church that morning, as he explains later when his father and brother are not around?

2. What does Harold publicly denounce Ginny and Rose for doing to Larry?

3. What happened to the Ericson farm, according to Ginny's memory of the time it was purchased?

4. What did Harold buy for himself without consulting Larry, which made Larry a bit upset?

5. What kind of sermon does Henry Dodge give during the service in which Rose and Ginny are helping?

6. What does Ginny currently do for three households each and every day when she is 36?

7. When Ty returns with the missing Larry, what does Larry have to say to Ginny in person?

8. What happened when the trucks and the tractors broke during the past when Larry and Harold were around?

9. What are the reactions of the daughters to Larry's new disappearance?

10. When Ginny takes her nieces to the swimming pool, what do they complain about to her?

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