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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 is the name of Charity's sister?
(a) Ava
(b) Hope
(c) Composure
(d) Comfort
2. What do Larry and Sid do after Sally goes to bed?
(a) Go to a bar
(b) Take a walk
(c) Go to a movie
(d) Go bowling
3. When does Larry drive to Vermont?
(a) July
(b) June
(c) September
(d) August
4. What type of study did Charity complete for Sid?
(a) A list of professors with their projected tenure dates
(b) The work of Robert Frost
(c) Economics in post-Depression America
(d) Art education in the inner cities
5. Where have Charity and her husband come from?
(a) Yale
(b) Harvard
(c) Rutgers
(d) Princeton
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the state of Sally's health?
2. Why does Larry feel he doesn't fit in with the other professors?
3. Who awakens at the vacation house as the story begins?
4. What has Charity's father been working on for the past ten years?
5. Which anniversary do Sid and Charity celebrate?
Short Essay Questions
1. Compare Sid and Larry's views on what constitutes good writing.
2. How is Charity's mother characterized?
3. How does Charity attempt to manage Sid's career?
4. Explain the bond that Sally feels almost instantly with Charity.
5. Explain the flashback the author uses to describe the beginning of Sid and Charity's courtship.
6. In addition to the enthusiastic welcome, what else strikes Larry and Sally about Sid and Charity Lang?
7. What is the impact of Larry's job loss on both couples?
8. How does the evening of the party end for the Morgans and the Langs?
9. What housing do Larry and Sally find when they reach Wisconsin?
10. Describe how the author introduces the reader to Larry Morgan at the beginning of the novel?
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