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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 Amanda admit to Ruth in Part 2, Chapter 17?
(a) She is Imogene's aunt.
(b) She is not Ruth's aunt.
(c) She is Imogene's mother.
(d) She is Ruth's mother.

2. Amanda resents people thinking they have the right to _________________.
(a) Comment on Mathilda's death.
(b) Comment on her thumb.
(c) Comment on Ruth's looks.
(d) Comment on Imogene's looks.

3. What will Amanda not allow Carl to do?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Leave without Ruth.
(c) Take Ruth away.
(d) Send her to the hospital.

4. What does Ruth force herself to feel toward Arthur after the drive they take together?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hate.

5. What does Amanda do when telling Clement the truth about them being Imogene's parents?
(a) Cries.
(b) Jumps in the lake.
(c) Hugs him.
(d) She rows her boat away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amanda takes a rowboat to go and see _____________.

2. What are Amanda's feelings while watching Clement swim?

3. Whose influence does Ruth want to be free of?

4. All of the summer boys dote on _________.

5. Ruth suggests that she and Amanda go to ___________________ in Part 2, Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the letter Amanda finds.

2. Discuss the plan Mathilda concocts involving Amanda and her pregnancy.

3. What happens when Amanda goes into labor?

4. What are Amanda's thoughts on her thumb?

5. Discuss Carl's trip to the Cathedral.

6. What happens during Arthur and Ruth's time spent together in Part 2, Chapter 15?

7. Discuss the relationship between Imogene, Arthur, and Ruth.

8. What does Ruth learn about Imogene?

9. Why doesn't Ruth go to Chicago with Imogene as planned?

10. What happens when Clement disappears without a word?

(see the answer keys)

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