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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 does Vanessa call Grandmother Nye, Nathaniel, Joab and Great Grandmother Vanessa?
(a) The dearly departed.
(b) The dead of the house.
(c) Her spirited relatives.
(d) The spooks.

2. What mood does Uncle Joab's poetry create in Vanessa?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Invigoration.
(c) Uplifted.
(d) Joy.

3. What does Vanessa consider Grandpa Nye's lawn to be?
(a) A cry for help.
(b) A showplace.
(c) An embarrassment.
(d) An outward sign.

4. Grandpa Nye is filled with sadness for _____________________.
(a) His lost youth.
(b) Starving children.
(c) Illiteracy.
(d) Dead soldiers.

5. How can Grandpa Nye's lawn be described?
(a) Unpretentious.
(b) Wild.
(c) Small.
(d) Manicured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been the major influence in Vanessa's life?

2. From whose perspective is the story told?

3. Who did Grandpa Nye marry?

4. Vanessa has the ______________ of a person far beyond her years.

5. How many pictures of Grandmother Nye are hanging in the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vanessa think her grandfather looks like Tecumseh?

2. What sort of ritual do Vanessa and Grandpa Nye engage in while thinking of Tecumseh?

3. How does Vanessa feel a sense of the past as reenters the family cabin?

4. Describe the cat figurine collection at Grandpa Nye's house.

5. How do Vanessa and Lisa try to come to terms with the changes in their childhood home?

6. How does Vanessa's mood brighten on a gloomy October day as she approaches Grandpa Nye's house?

7. How did Grandpa Nye adapt to life as a boy in Cincinnati?

8. Where are Vanessa and her grandfather as he tells her more about her ancestors?

9. Describe the only public speech that Vanessa had seen Grandpa Nye deliver.

10. Where did Grandpa Nye attend college?

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