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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ethan opens the bottle in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles" and the narrative transitions to Amma’s childhood, what is Amma’s great-great-great grandmother called?
(a) Paula the Palimpset
(b) Del the Delinquent
(c) Sulla the Prophet
(d) Sarafine the Shifter

2. In Chapter 4: “Catfish Crossin’,” Aunt Prue tells Ethan, “you can’t make preserves until you learn how to” what?
(a) Boil water
(b) Pick berries
(c) Turn on the oven
(d) Open a jar

3. What route does Ethan instinctively look for as he heads toward Main Street in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next"?
(a) Route 66
(b) Route 9
(c) Route 18
(d) Route 7

4. What are the songs called that Ethan’s mother says she sent him in Chapter 2: "Fried Green Tomatoes"?
(a) The Moon Songs
(b) The Psalm Songs
(c) The Shadowing Songs
(d) The Sun Songs

5. What title does Ethan say his mother had in Chapter 2: "Fried Green Tomatoes"?
(a) A Keeper
(b) A Shifter
(c) A Natural
(d) A Caster

6. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle: “As in, as hard as I can, every minute of every day” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) Try
(b) Help
(c) Love
(d) Work

7. What is the name of the Gatlin cemetery that Ethan sees when he opens the door of the house in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next"?
(a) Her Lady of the Silver Moon
(b) St. Augustine’s Gardens of Time
(c) His Garden of Perpetual Peace
(d) The Greenbrier Garden of Peace

8. When Ethan awakens in Chapter 1: "Home,” he is in his old bedroom at what estate?
(a) Wate’s Landing
(b) Ravenwood Manor
(c) Greenbrier
(d) His Garden of Perpetual Peace

9. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle: “As in, how I feel about you, Lena Duchannes” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) Like
(b) Miss
(c) Love
(d) Need

10. Ethan says that after his mother’s death, Marian told him about a Buddhist class she took where in Chapter 1: "Home"?
(a) Duke University
(b) Louisiana State University
(c) Loyola University
(d) Boston University

11. What book by Jack Kerouac does Ethan pull from the pile of books under his bed in Chapter 1: "Home"?
(a) Big Sur
(b) On the Road
(c) Dharma Bums
(d) Visions of Cody

12. Where does Genevieve say they took Ethan Carter Wate in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?
(a) To the mouth of Sauron
(b) To the Far Keep
(c) To the Mortal realm
(d) To the River Styx

13. What is Ethan’s middle name?
(a) Lawson
(b) Leighton
(c) Marshall
(d) Crawford

14. What word is written on the sheet of notebook paper that Lena leaves on Ethan’s grave in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?
(a) Truth
(b) Try
(c) Love
(d) Redemption

15. In Chapter 2: "Fried Green Tomatoes,” Ethan’s mother says that Amma has told Ethan’s father that he is where with his aunt?
(a) Jackson
(b) New York
(c) Savannah
(d) New Orleans

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the cards called that Amma’s grandmother reads in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles"?

2. What follows “Prudence Jane Statham” on her gravestone, as described in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next"?

3. By what name does Ethan refer to Amma’s “death-defying, all-powerful wooden spoon of justice” in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?

4. By what name does Amma’s grandmother call her in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles"?

5. What object does Lena take out in Chapter 6: "Silver Button" that Ethan recalls giving her not long ago on the water tower?

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