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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the restaurant that Sita opens in chapter 7?
(a) La Petite Francaise.
(b) La Trattoria.
(c) Chez Sita.
(d) Chez Panisse.

2. What word sticks in Sita's brain during the ordination ceremony?
(a) "Illegitimate."
(b) "Baptismal."
(c) "Chrism."
(d) "Pecator."

3. What is the name of Jimmy's restaurant?
(a) The Overlook.
(b) Argus's One-Stop.
(c) The Poopdeck Restaurant.
(d) Jimmy's Grub.

4. What is the name of the person whom Sita mentions as killing the chickens?
(a) Canute.
(b) Charolais.
(c) Salvador.
(d) Victor.

5. What brand of cigarette does Celestine smoke?
(a) Winston.
(b) King Richard.
(c) Marlboro.
(d) Viceroy.

6. What vehicle does Mary drive to Sita's restaurant opening?
(a) Russell's motorcycle.
(b) A pickup truck.
(c) A Honda.
(d) The butcher shop van.

7. According to chapter 3, what does Adelaide want to send Mary?
(a) Money for a car.
(b) A set of good knives.
(c) Money for college.
(d) A sewing machine.

8. What is the name of the aunt mentioned in "The Branch"?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Celestine.
(c) Fritzie.
(d) Esther.

9. What does Wallace Pfef want to build over Lover's Lane?
(a) A railroad track.
(b) A highway.
(c) A swimming pool.
(d) A playground.

10. Whose face does Mary see in the ice?
(a) Adelaide's.
(b) Celestine's.
(c) Karl's.
(d) Sita's.

11. Who moves south in chapter 4?
(a) Fritzie and Pete.
(b) Celestine.
(c) Karl.
(d) Russell Kashpaw.

12. What does Karl's rescuer use to hear trains?
(a) A special boot attachment.
(b) A dog.
(c) A hearing aid.
(d) Karl.

13. What happens to the damaged tree?
(a) It contracts blight.
(b) It bears fruit the following spring.
(c) It gets cut down.
(d) It blows over in a storm.

14. Who is being considered for "North Dakota's Most Decorated Hero"?
(a) Russell Kashpaw.
(b) Officer Daniel Lunt.
(c) Wallace Pfef.
(d) Jimmy Bohl.

15. Where does Mary run at the end of "The Branch"?
(a) To the train.
(b) To Minneapolis.
(c) To her mother.
(d) To Fritzie's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the characters in the first paragraph of "The Branch" travel?

2. About whom does Karl fantasize in chapter 3?

3. To what is the train compared in the beginning of chapter 1?

4. Whose menu catches on fire?

5. Who is in the bar that Sita enters at the end of chapter 5?

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