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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. What do Larry and Harold take in exchange for their work on repairing broken machinery around the farm at first?
(a) Ice cream
(b) Nothing
(c) Lemonade
(d) Chicken

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

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

4. What does Jess show up with since Harold's freezer breaks down and this thing needs to stay cool?
(a) Frozen meat
(b) Frozen dinner
(c) Frozen veggies
(d) Frozen pies

5. Ginny's grandparents were the ones who arrived from ____________ to find their new farm land to not be up to their expectations.
(a) Italy
(b) Germany
(c) England
(d) France

Short Answer Questions

1. Jess gushes about a nearby organic farm that seeing its 20 varieties of non-hybrid __________ is like meeting the Buddha.

2. Ginny cannot think of ________ without thinking of her room, which she cannot think of without thinking of her father.

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

4. Who arrives late to breakfast the day after the pig roast, even though the rest of the family was there and ready on time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What ends the two week long Monopoly game and causes the family to react angrily?

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

3. What did Ginny and Rose do in order to help Caroline grow up well even though her mother had died?

4. After the storm and the incident in the storm, what does Ginny decide she needs to do for her father?

5. What do Ginny and the girls encounter when they arrive home after their swimming trip?

6. What has Ty wanted to do for years with his share of the farm he lives on?

7. How does Ginny describe the dimensions of her flat world as an 8-year-old in 1951?

8. What did Ginny and Rose create inside of their mother's closet when they were little?

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

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

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