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

2. What does Sid ask Larry?
(a) What his investment recommendations are
(b) If he will be the godfather to his son
(c) If he wants to go into business with him
(d) What it feels like to have a book published

3. What do Sally and Charity talk about?
(a) Recipes
(b) Their pregnancies
(c) Women's rights
(d) The holidays

4. What kind of lessons does Charity take?
(a) Driving
(b) Tennis
(c) French
(d) Music

5. What was Sid's area of study before switching to English?
(a) Economics
(b) Biology
(c) Art
(d) Geology

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary technique does the author use in Chapter 2?

2. With whom does Sally share a cabin in Vermont?

3. How did Larry's parents die?

4. Who awakens at the vacation house as the story begins?

5. Where did Sally and Larry meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Charity's model of an ideal marriage and how will it affect her own marriage to Sid?

3. Describe how the author introduces the reader to Larry Morgan at the beginning of the novel?

4. What are the plans for Larry's day?

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

6. How are Sid and Charity described?

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

8. How do the Morgans and Langs celebrate one of Larry's early literary successes?

9. Explain how one of the novel's themes of rescue is important in Part 1: Chapter 10.

10. Explain the bond that Sally feels almost instantly with Charity.

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