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

2. How old is the narrator when the story opens and the description of the farm is being shared with the reader?
(a) 8
(b) 20
(c) 14
(d) 9

3. What does Jess ask Ginny to do when he surprises her by showing up at her house?
(a) Sleep with him
(b) Give him a book
(c) Make him breakfast
(d) Go for a walk

4. What is the name of the road that Country Road 686 intersects with, according to the narrator?
(a) Peave
(b) River
(c) Cabot
(d) Farm

5. Jess asks Ginny who Larry's favorite was of all of his girls as they are talking to each other. Who is the favorite?
(a) Ginny
(b) None of them
(c) Caroline
(d) Rose

Short Answer Questions

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

2. _________ does not respond to any of Ty and Ginny's questions, neither in the hospital or in the car on the drive home.

3. What is the task Ginny is trying to accomplish, one that takes her until noon that morning?

4. Who drives to Cabot to talk to Henry Dodge, though she bolts from his office as soon as he appears, without talking to him?

5. What does the buffet table usually have an overabundance of when they set up for the picnic for the church's 1903 founding?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ginny run back home on her way to feed her father one morning?

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

3. What does Ginny drive Rose to and what is the outcome of this trip they take together?

4. What happens to the kitchen cabinets that Larry purchases, even though he doesn't need them?

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

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

7. What does Ginny do in order to try to catch a glance of Jess Clark again?

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

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

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

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