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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 action does Russ consider is Russ’s Christmas present to himself?
(a) Spending 6 hours with Kitty alone.
(b) Spending 6 hours with himself alone.
(c) Spending 6 hours with Marion alone.
(d) Spending 6 hours with Frances alone.

2. What 40 pills does Perry get for giving Randy $20?
(a) Diet pills.
(b) Quaaludes.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Sugar pills.

3. What city does Russ remember growing up in as a boy?
(a) Lesser Huron.
(b) Lesser Sandusky.
(c) Lesser Hebronite.
(d) Lesser Hebron.

4. When Russ calls Ambrose a fraud and a “raging egomaniac,” what does Ambrose do?
(a) Punches Russ in the mouth.
(b) Agrees with Russ.
(c) Punches Russ in the eye.
(d) Punches Russ in the stomach.

5. Why did Russ’s old Navajo friend Keith Durochie tell him not to go to Kitsillie on the church mission trip?
(a) Because it is flooded from a storm.
(b) Because it is a ghost town.
(c) Because there are too many tourists there.
(d) Because it is too dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which filter option does Marion buy on her cigarettes?

2. How did Frances describe what she felt, from the results of the experiment she did smoking pot alone?

3. Where in Arizona does Russ meet Marion the first time?

4. Once Russ tells Marion about the car accident, what will she know about Frances?

5. At the Crossroads meeting, what does Larry tell Russ about why Frances took down all of his dead father’s photos around the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Charlie Durochie call Russ a nickname while he worked on the Navajo lands, and what was the story behind it?

2. Why does Russ go to the other side of town to the Black Church each week to do humanitarian charity work?

3. What does Marion say to Clem when he says that he is going into the military to go to the Vietnam War?

4. How did Russ use Larry to find out about how serious Frances was with her boyfriend?

5. Why does Becky have an argument with Clem regarding Tanner?

6. What signal does Russ get that Frances is lusting in her heart for him as he is lusting after her?

7. Explain how Russ’s relationship with Rick Ambrose goes from love, to hate to love over the course of the novel.

8. Why does Russ’s father never forgive Russ’s grandfather Opa Clement?

9. What is the “experiment” that Frances wants to do with Russ?

10. Who sees Tanner kissing Becky in Tanner’s van? What does this character do with this information?

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