View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The mountain folks refuse to accept the idea that typhoid bacilli can be present by the billions in their what?
(a) Water.
(b) Fire wood.
(c) Bed sheets.
(d) Meat.

2. David speaks his mind and tells his congregation that white lightning is being brewed and trafficked by night, using schoolboys as what?
(a) Go-Betweens.
(b) Distractions.
(c) Stillers.
(d) Runners.

3. At the wedding reception, who does Dr. MacNeill dance with several times?
(a) Ruby Mae.
(b) Christy.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) Opal.

4. At Opal's house are Bird's-Eye and three other men outside, wanting Tom McHone. Bird's-Eye gives Christy permission to enter the cabin, but cautions her with his what?
(a) Words.
(b) Knife.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Gun.

5. What horrible thing happens to Tom McHone?
(a) He falls off a cliff.
(b) He dies of a fever.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is stabbed.

6. The women are alone, for Tom McHone has crept out during the night and David is where?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) El Pano.
(c) Upper Gap.
(d) Low Gap.

7. Christy learns that God accepts individuals under what rule?
(a) If they are good.
(b) If they bend to His will.
(c) As they are.
(d) If they ask for forgiveness.

8. Before Christy leaves for her break with her family in Asheville, she visits who?
(a) Opal.
(b) Miss Alice.
(c) David.
(d) Dr. MacNeill.

9. They steam what like asparagus?
(a) Bellwort shoots.
(b) Leeks.
(c) Beerweed shoots.
(d) Potatoes.

10. That night Ruby Mae wakes Christy with word that men are trying to break into the what?
(a) Mission House.
(b) Bank.
(c) School.
(d) Church.

11. Christy reaches the point where she holds who responsible for Fairlight's death and her own anger and resentment?
(a) Herself.
(b) God.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) David.

12. Jeb Spencer keeps what?
(a) Bees.
(b) Cows.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Goats.

13. One thing about the highlanders that Christy confronts but puzzles her is their intense what?
(a) Superstition.
(b) Animocity.
(c) Love.
(d) Ignorance.

14. Looking for weapons, the women find two fireplace pokers, a shovel, and some what?
(a) Skillets.
(b) Hammers.
(c) Guns.
(d) Dinner knives.

15. Why does the school stay open during the epidemic?
(a) The school is a good place to meet and compare health.
(b) The school children are quarantined there when the epidemic starts.
(c) The school is cleaner than the homes.
(d) The school children are afraid to go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Zady Spencer is afraid of what?

2. How many McHone children does Christy walk to school?

3. The next day, the school's closing events are held and Creed Allen brings what to the event?

4. Miss Alice has how many children?

5. Christy is still confused and seeks the advice of whom to help her figure out her philosophy of life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 427 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample