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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 is still broiling as Ginny decides to leave Ty--actually they are still on the stove as she walks out the door?
(a) Pork chops
(b) Chicken breasts
(c) Steaks
(d) Fish sticks

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

3. The farm's ultimate legacy was $34,000 in debt that was owed to __________ after the death of Larry.
(a) The IRS
(b) The state
(c) The county
(d) The neighbors

4. Ginny goes out to stand on one of the bolted drainage wells, listening to the eternal __________, then goes to the barn.
(a) Trickling
(b) Wind
(c) Roosters
(d) Silence

5. Henry Dodge say that families function better when they _____________, so he wants the family to try to repair itself.
(a) Ignore the past
(b) Forgive
(c) Break apart
(d) Stay together

Short Answer Questions

1. The lawsuit of Caroline and Larry against Ty and Ginny, Rose and Pete is found to be __________ by the judge.

2. Ginny and Rose, Ty and Pete have an unprecedented two-hour long conference with their new Mason City __________.

3. Ginny decides to give away her acres, with ___________ receiving 380 acres and Rose receiving 640 acres.

4. __________ admits she is tempted to walk inside the Chelsea, even after all these years.

5. Rose's legacy to her daughters was her __________, her way of looking things, according to Ginny.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ginny describe the way she is feeling after the midnight conversation with Rose?

2. How is it shown that Ty is the better farmer of all of his neighbors and their farms?

3. What does Rose want Ginny to do for her daughters, Pammy and Linda, that night instead of taking them back with Ginny?

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

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

6. What was the one thing, Ginny thinks, her father had stolen from her in her life and in her marriage?

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

8. When Ginny is hiding in a dressing room, what does she overhear Larry say about her and Rose?

9. What does Rose's physician tell Ginny about the condition of Rose and about her prognosis?

10. Who takes care of the funeral arrangements for Pete, since Harold and Larry are not present?

(see the answer keys)

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