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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls while the girls are setting up the card game?
(a) Barnette.
(b) Chick.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Doc.

2. Barnette plans to attribute the shooting to:
(a) Zackery's continued physical and emotional abuse.
(b) Babe's self-defense in the face of her husband's anger.
(c) An accident.
(d) Babe's desire to start a new life.

3. Meg's desire to remain while the hurricane hit Biloxi suggests:
(a) She had a need for chaos in her life.
(b) She just wanted to die.
(c) She wanted to know that Doc was not a weak man.
(d) She thought she was invincible.

4. Babe looks happy in her wedding picture because:
(a) She was drunk on champagne.
(b) Old Granddaddy told her to smile.
(c) She thought she loved Zackery.
(d) She does not understand that she is getting married.

5. While she tells her story, the comfort food Babe indulges in is:
(a) Popcorn.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Candy.

6. Babe's hysteria does not allow her to register:
(a) That Old Granddaddy has had another stroke.
(b) That Meg has run off with Doc.
(c) That Zackery has had photos taken of her and Willy Jay.
(d) That Zackery's liver is getting better.

7. When Meg went crazy in L.A., what did she do with her jewels and valuables?
(a) She tried to stuff them into a mailbox to send them home.
(b) She tried to sell them to a pawn shop.
(c) She tried to sell them to Lenny.
(d) She tried to stuff them in a March of Dimes box.

8. Lenny seems to see herself as:
(a) A martyr.
(b) A saint.
(c) A princess.
(d) A slave.

9. When Meg asks why she can not seem to keep her mouth shut, Doc answers:
(a) Maybe it is because she never learned to.
(b) Maybe it is because she does not want to.
(c) Maybe it is because she is wants to show Lenny who is tougher.
(d) Maybe it is because she enjoys hurting others.

10. Why does Babe keep articles about unhappy things in her scrapbook?
(a) She wants to believe that all the events in her life were happy.
(b) She wants to keep an accurate record.
(c) She wants to remind herself of the good days.
(d) She wants to caution herself against repeating mistakes.

11. What did Babe want for her mother's funeral?
(a) She wanted to keep her mother's cat.
(b) She wanted a team of white horses to carry the coffin.
(c) She wanted her mother to be buried at a castle.
(d) She wanted a banana split for breakfast.

12. Where do Meg and Doc go together?
(a) They go to the hospital to see Old Granddaddy.
(b) They go to his house to meet his wife, Joan.
(c) They go back to Biloxi.
(d) They go for a ride to look at the moon.

13. Meg and Lenny are bothered by the photo of their father's smile because:
(a) It reminds them of how much he loved their mother.
(b) It reminds them of how much they miss him.
(c) It hides the truth about who he was.
(d) It hides the pain he feels about their mother's suicide.

14. Rather than sympathizing with Meg's need to "toughen up" after their mother's suicide, Lenny believes:
(a) Meg's hardness caused her to lead Doc on, and eventually cost him his leg.
(b) Meg always tried to exploit the situation to get what she wanted.
(c) Meg's lies have stemmed from her need for attention.
(d) Meg's hardness has cost the whole family their happiness.

15. Though Babe wants to burn the photos of herself and Willy Jay, Barnette tells her:
(a) Zackery has already seen the photos.
(b) It will not do any good because the photos have already gone to the press.
(c) She has to turn herself in to the authorities.
(d) It will not do any good because Zackery has the negative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret has Babe revealed to Meg about Lenny?

2. Babe surprises Barnette by:

3. Why has Lenny taken to sleeping in the kitchen?

4. Babe wants a copy of the paper because:

5. Lenny reveals that she did not tell Charlie about her ovary because:

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