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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 was revealed under the marshland that once stood in the farm area that Larry now owns?
(a) Fertile soil
(b) Clay
(c) Natural crops
(d) A river

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

3. Ginny thinks back to when her house used to be owned by the ___________.
(a) Smiths
(b) Ericsons
(c) Chelseas
(d) Cooks

4. Jess' father decided to take the day off from ____________ planting to host the pig roast for his son.
(a) Lettuce
(b) Wheat
(c) Spring bean
(d) Corn

5. Ginny takes her nieces, Pammy and Linda, to the __________ swimming pool on a hot and windy Friday in June.
(a) Pike
(b) Farm
(c) County
(d) Zebulon

Short Answer Questions

1. Caroline calls and says she had just returned from New York and found a note on her desk saying ____________ had driven to Des Moines to find her.

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

3. Ginny's mother had not been afraid of _________, but afraid of the life her daughters would lead after that happened.

4. What has Rose been diagnosed with, which means she needs additional help with certain chores and tasks?

5. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is on the papers which Ken LaSalle gives to Ginny when she is served?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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