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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. Who had Parker wanted to marry?
(a) The librarian.
(b) The cute waitress at the diner.
(c) No one.
(d) His high school sweetheart.

2. Whom does Mason bequeath his possessions?
(a) His cat.
(b) His church.
(c) Francis.
(d) His nephew.

3. Why does Francis return to Mason's property?
(a) To visit Mason's grave.
(b) To collect his clothes.
(c) To get some food.
(d) To sell more moonshine.

4. What ends the relationship between Mason and Francis?
(a) Francis runs away.
(b) Mason goes crazy.
(c) Francis goes to college.
(d) Mason dies.

5. Why is Parker's wife so furious when she hears about his accident at work?
(a) Parker was flirting with a girl when it happened.
(b) Parker ruined his new pants.
(c) Parker never called her.
(d) Parker had been drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe Mrs. Turpin's view of the other waiting room patients?

2. What is Parker's reaction when his wife throws him out of the house?

3. What also burned when Francis burned Mason's body?

4. Where does the Fortune family live?

5. Why does Francis tell Mason's nephew that Francis set Mason's body on fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mr. Fortune so drawn to Mary and not his other grandchildren?

2. What does the schoolteacher consider hopeful after Mason's death?

3. What story does Francis tell the schoolteacher about Mason's death?

4. What does Francis do in the time shortly after Mason's death?

5. Why is the schoolteacher so committed to saving Francis and what happens to him as a result?

6. Why does Francis have such difficulty living with Mason?

7. What are the circumstances in which Julian's mother gets hit?

8. What is one of Mason's most controversial decisions?

9. How does the schoolteacher react to Mason's death?

10. What is the premise of THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY?

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