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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. What concerns Sally about her appearance?
(a) She has a run in her stocking
(b) She needs a haircut
(c) Her dress isn't right
(d) Her shoes need polished

2. What event does Larry feel as if he had been a part of even though he was not?
(a) Sid and Charity's courtship
(b) World War II
(c) The Stock Market Crash
(d) World War I

3. What is Charity's mother reading to a group of children when he arrives?
(a) Hiawatha
(b) Peter Pan
(c) Winnie the Pooh
(d) The Velveteen Rabbit

4. How did Larry's parents die?
(a) In a car accident
(b) An infectious disease
(c) In a boating accident
(d) In a plane crash

5. What major event has just occurred as the chapter begins?
(a) Charity opens a music store
(b) Sally gets a new job at the college
(c) Sid has bought a new house
(d) Charity has just had her baby

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Larry happy to be teaching summer classes?

2. What type of building does Charity's father have in the woods?

3. Where have Charity and her husband come from?

4. How does Larry occupy his time in the summer?

5. What happens when Sid and Larry are out walking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the flashback the author uses to describe the beginning of Sid and Charity's courtship.

2. Explain the flashback that the author uses in Part 1: Chapter 2.

3. How are Sid and Charity described?

4. Explain how Larry and Charity are very much alike in their work ethics and life management skills.

5. How is Charity's mother characterized?

6. What good news does Larry receive at the beginning of Part 1: Chapter 8?

7. What is the setting for the beginning of the novel?

8. What do Larry and Sally learn about Charity as she talks?

9. What work does Larry do?

10. What is the impact of Larry's job loss on both couples?

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