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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tilden continue to bring in from the backyard?
(a) Garden tools.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Soil for house plants.
(d) Flowers for Halie.

2. Who tried to present themselves as the one in charge of the family, but was ignored by everyone?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Bradley.
(c) Father Dewis.
(d) Halie.

3. Who owned this farm?
(a) Dodge, he was the father and husband.
(b) Tilden, because he had a vegetable garden.
(c) Ansel, because he spent his life preparing the land to harvest.
(d) Bradley, since he repesented ordor to this family.

4. Who is Ansel?
(a) Halie and Dodge's son.
(b) Bradley' s father.
(c) Member of Father Drewis' church.
(d) Tilden's son.

5. Who has a security blanket?
(a) Tilden.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Halie.

6. What does Halie say Dodge has become?
(a) Head of Bradley's household.
(b) The man with a wooden leg.
(c) The father of Tildren's children.
(d) An evil, spiteful, vengeful man.

7. What set off this family toward disaster?
(a) Halie's devotion to her children.
(b) Dodge's trust for his wife.
(c) Father Dewis' devotion to Dodge.
(d) The mismatch between Dodge and Halie.

8. What is the first thing noticed about Halie?
(a) She tries to pretend that her marriage and family are strong.
(b) She constructs grave stones.
(c) She loves vegetables.
(d) She is in the garden club.

9. Who has a wooden leg?
(a) Ansel
(b) Tilden
(c) Father Dewis
(d) Bradley

10. Where did Tilden return from, broken and unable to care for himself?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Arizonia
(c) Texas
(d) Illinois

11. Where did Halie spend most of her time?
(a) Visiting Ansel.
(b) With Father Dewis.
(c) Upstairs off stage.
(d) In the backyard.

12. What did Halie say she and Father Dewis were doing all night when they came home drunk?
(a) Planning a monument for Ansel
(b) A memorial service for Bradley
(c) Planning for Ansel's saint hood
(d) Dodge's funeral

13. Why does Father Dewis come by?
(a) To see Dodge
(b) To see Tilden
(c) To see Ansel
(d) To see Halie

14. Who shouts from upstairs telling Dodge to take his medication when he coughs?
(a) Father Dewis.
(b) Tilden.
(c) Bradley.
(d) Halie.

15. Who's life is centered on a couch, television, and a bottle?
(a) Ansel.
(b) Father Dewis.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Tilden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Halie say needs to stay out of the yard?

2. Who cut off Dodge's hair?

3. Who usually comes drunk after being out all night? And who does she bring with her?

4. What position did Dodge hold in the family?

5. There are vague hints about a dark secret hidden in what area of the farm?

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