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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. __________ accuses Ginny and Rose of taking advantage of Larry, though he was the one who decided who to give the farm to.
(a) Loren
(b) Caroline
(c) Harold
(d) Jess

2. Jess gushes about a nearby organic farm that seeing its 20 varieties of non-hybrid __________ is like meeting the Buddha.
(a) Tomatoes
(b) Apples
(c) Lettuce
(d) Potatoes

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

4. ___________ is currently cooking three meals a day for three households.
(a) Ginny
(b) Jess
(c) Larry
(d) Rose

5. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?
(a) Pumpkin
(b) Tomato
(c) Green bean
(d) Corn

Short Answer Questions

1. How many land purchases were made in 1939, the year after Ginny's grandmother died, helping to make the farm even larger?

2. What had Ty's father died from?

3. Jess' father decided to take the day off from ____________ planting to host the pig roast for his son.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Ginny's grandmother's grandparents find when they arrived in the United States from England?

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

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

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

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

8. What is Marc Griffin, the banker, worried about in relation to the actions of Larry on his farm?

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

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

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