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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 finds out that ________ had a heart attack while pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle.
(a) Larry
(b) Loren
(c) Ty
(d) Jess

2. __________ manage a decent funeral for Peter because others aren't around to help Rose and Ginny.
(a) Ty and Loren
(b) The men
(c) The church people
(d) Caroline's friends

3. Feeling too awkward to go to the pool to swim, Ginny heads over to the ___________.
(a) City pool
(b) Fitness club
(c) Quarry
(d) YMCA

4. What is Rose's reaction to the fact that Ginny tried to poison Rose with the sausages?
(a) She laughs
(b) She says nothing
(c) She tells Ginny to get out
(d) She cries

5. Ginny remembers back when she was young that she ate 27 __________ while she was sitting on the toilet.
(a) Gum drops
(b) Peanuts
(c) Baby aspirins
(d) Raw pieces of pasta

Short Answer Questions

1. Ginny is working as a waitress at the ____________ Restaurant off Interstate 35.

2. Henry Dodge say that families function better when they _____________, so he wants the family to try to repair itself.

3. This breed of men in #161 believe their way of thinking is normal and that they should be ___________ by everyone else.

4. Caroline tries to turn on the faucet, but there is ______________ as she talks about the idea that her memory of Larry is just what a father's memory should be.

5. At the ___________ in the town where Ginny travels, the store manager notes that Larry is planning on moving to Des Moines.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the status of Harold's eyes after his accident with the ammonia?

2. What does Ginny do in order to attempt to poison her sister, Rose?

3. Why is Rose tempted to walk inside Chelsea, according to Rose as she speaks to Ginny?

4. Why has Henry Dodge, the Lutheran minister, come to call on Ginny, even though she did not ask him to come?

5. What happened to Rose's old home when the farm sale occurred in the springtime?

6. Why does Ty hope for good weather at the beginning of this chapter?

7. What does Rose let Ginny know in a short note she receives while Ginny is in her new place?

8. What did Ginny do when she was 3-and-a-half that made her aware of her own skin?

9. What does Ginny do between shifts at her new job as a waitress?

10. Why did the bank not give Ty a loan this year for his farm and for his hog operation?

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