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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. Why does Russ have an accident in his car when he is with Frances?
(a) He is distracted by a snowstorm.
(b) He is distracted lusting after Frances.
(c) He is distracted yelling at Frances.
(d) He is distracted by a bicyclist.

2. What is the name of Russ’s church?
(a) Newly Reformed.
(b) Dearly Beloved.
(c) New Reformation.
(d) New Reformed.

3. Where is Isabelle when Marion goes to see her friend, to possibly get help when Marion is pregnant?
(a) She has moved away.
(b) She has moved upstairs.
(c) She helps Marion.
(d) She counsel’s Marion.

4. What is the adult vodka mixed drink that Perry drinks at the Haefle party?
(a) Bloody Mary.
(b) Gløgg.
(c) Martini.
(d) Sløgg.

5. How much does Becky inherit from Shirley?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $13,000.
(d) $31,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two sides of Clem’s personality that he feels he needs in order to kill the enemy in Vietnam?

2. When the novel begins, Russ’s humiliation happened how many years earlier?

3. Who was the salesman Marion meets on her job and has an affair with at the car dealership?

4. At what age does Becky inherit the money from Shirley?

5. What does Becky do to express her growing feelings for Tanner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clem realize Russ is “blackening” Rick Ambrose’s name?

2. How is Judson treated as a character in the novel?

3. Why did Perry and other teenagers at the Haefle party sneak and drink the adult vodka mixed drink gløgg?

4. Why do Frances and Russ ignore Pastor Theo Crenshaw’s advice to leave the neighborhood boy Ronnie alone?

5. Why is Russ upset that Frances calls Ambrose a “genius” for his work with the church teen group Crossroads?

6. What does Frances want to do with the marijuana she finds in Larry’s bedroom?

7. What is the reason Ronnie’s mother becomes so angry with Frances for drawing with her son Ronnie?

8. What is the “humiliation” that Russ suffered on the first mission trip to Arizona with the Crossroads group of teens?

9. Why does Becky say that Shirley’s death was like that of Eleanor Rigby?

10. Who does Becky go to Crossroads group meetings with first?

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