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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. How will the Morrisons' estate be spent?
(a) Buying a family car.
(b) Expanding the farm.
(c) Buying a house in town.
(d) Sending Luke to college.

2. Who is the neighbor girl that Matt likes?
(a) Marie Pye.
(b) Louise Gilroy.
(c) Mackenzie Pearson.
(d) Elena Galloway.

3. What does Katie wonder about what she saw on the body of the person in #82?
(a) If she should have said something.
(b) It his mother did this to him.
(c) If they were self inflicted.
(d) If he was really clumsy.

4. Who made sexual advances toward Luke?
(a) Avery.
(b) Addie.
(c) Sara.
(d) Sally.

5. Which of Mr. Morrison's sisters came to stay with the children after their parents were killed?
(a) Aunt Grace.
(b) Aunt Belinda.
(c) Aunt Sharon.
(d) Aunt Annie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose garden does Katie weed during her high school years?

2. Why does Aunt Annie refuse Miss Carrington's request?

3. What did Daniel do at the beginning of his relationship with Katie?

4. In the prologue, Katie states that her Grandmother Morrison had a ______________ fixed to her spinning wheel.

5. What is Katie doing when Daniel arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Luke fear for his job at the McLean farm at one point?

2. What arrangements are made for the Morrison children after a meeting with the family lawyer?

3. What news does Luke deliver in the last dinner the Morrison family has together?

4. What does Katie remember about writing letters to Aunt Annie?

5. What decision has Luke made after another visit to see the family attorney?

6. How does the author set up a subtle conflict related to Grandmother Morrison and how it will extend to affect Katie and Matt someday.

7. What ugly secret about the Pye family do the people of Crow Lake choose to ignore?

8. What has prompted Katie to think about her childhood again after so many years?

9. How does the author use foreshadowing regarding Katie's recollection of one of Jackson Pye's sons?

10. What type of work is Luke able to find in order to support the family?

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