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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 caused Tara's mother's memory loss?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Hereditary.
(c) Brain injury.
(d) Laziness.

2. Where did Tara's family live?
(a) City.
(b) Valley.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Cave.

3. Which book did Tara's father often read?
(a) Dictionary.
(b) Bible.
(c) Quran.
(d) Encyclopedia.

4. Which word best describes Tara's father?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Patient.
(c) Playful.
(d) Paranoid.

5. What age was Tara when her mother stopped teaching her?
(a) 18.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Tara's brother's had a severe learning disability?

2. Who was the first child in the family to go to college?

3. Who became the grunts when Luke became the eldest son at home?

4. Where did Grandma-down-the-hill want to take Tara?

5. Which technique does the author predominately use to explain the past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made Tara's family different from other families she knew?

2. How did Tyler behave when his father berated him for wanting an education?

3. Which New Age philosophy did Tara's mother practice?

4. What did Tara worry about when Tyler decided to go to college?

5. What was Tara's father's upbringing like?

6. Why did Tara have trouble trusting her mother?

7. What did Tara worry would happen if she left the mountain?

8. What surprised Tara about her singing?

9. What traumatized Tara about her father's story in Chapter One?

10. Why was Tara's mother attracted to Tara's father when they met?

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