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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. Whose house does Catherine's husband go to in distress in Part I?
(a) The Farley house.
(b) The Pratt house.
(c) The Rutger House.
(d) The Lawton house.

2. What does Justine Sokolov work at?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Weaving.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

3. What does George tell his boss when his boss asks George what his essence is?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) It is painting.
(c) It is sailing.
(d) It is his wife and family.

4. What complement does Eddy give Catherine in Part II?
(a) She is talented.
(b) She is a good mother.
(c) She is very beautiful.
(d) She has a good job.

5. What is Eddy Hale's dream?
(a) To join the army.
(b) To run his own accounting firm.
(c) To go to law school.
(d) To go to music school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Hale struggle with before his death?

2. What is the tennis club George joins?

3. Who takes care of the Hale boys following their parents' death?

4. What kind of business is George Clare's father in?

5. What kind of painter is the one that George focuses his thesis on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does George Clare pay to put his Fiat in a garage, even though he cannot really afford to?

2. How does the deaths of the Hale parents affect their three children, and where do the children go afterwards?

3. How does George Clare get his job at the college in Saginaw?

4. How does Brundage describe the relationship between the three Hale brothers?

5. What information about the Hale house does George keep from Catherine?

6. What impression does George Clare get of the direction the police investigation into Catherine's murder is taking?

7. Why do Catherine and George Clare end up together in the first place?

8. What does Catherine think the first time she tours the Hale house?

9. What startles the Pratts about the appearance of George and Franny Clare at their house in Part I?

10. How does Catherine feel about religion and spirituality?

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