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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie knows to ask the woman at the door for a business card because which character had done the same for her after Tim's accident?
(a) Eileen.
(b) Andy.
(c) Lori.
(d) Nona.

2. When Dean is leaning toward accepting Ted's offer to help coach his team, he thinks to himself that he could at least counsel the kids not to take what action in the event any of them did become professional athletes?
(a) Get married.
(b) Push their bodies too hard.
(c) Get hooked on drugs.
(d) Give their money away frivolously.

3. According to Evvie, the townspeople saw her as someone who "had gone directly from lobsterman's daughter to" (44) what?
(a) Fishmonger's wife.
(b) Orphan.
(c) Easy Street.
(d) Doctor's wife.

4. What color is the suitcase that Evvie retrieves from the hall closet, packs, and puts into her car at the start of the prologue?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

5. Who is Andy?
(a) Evvie's uncle.
(b) Evvie's best friend.
(c) Evvie's ex-boyfriend.
(d) Evvie's father.

6. Evvie threatens to take what action against Ellen Boyd if she does not immediately leave Evvie's porch?
(a) To pull her hair.
(b) To punch her.
(c) To stomp on her foot.
(d) To kick her.

7. Evvie tells Dean that the reason Tim had stayed in his hometown after medical school was that only by remaining there could he be viewed as what type of creature?
(a) A chameleon.
(b) A centaur.
(c) A yeti.
(d) A unicorn.

8. Who calls Evvie in the prologue to tell her that Tim has been in a severe car accident?
(a) Tim.
(b) Tim's mother.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Evvie's mother.

9. Evvie's favorite client is a woman named "Nona Powell Brown, a professor at" (26) which university?
(a) Howard.
(b) Brown.
(c) Morehouse.
(d) Cornell.

10. Once Evvie uses a particular object to prop open the door between the main house and Dean's apartment, they begin to only close the door on which occasions?
(a) If the house was too cold.
(b) At night.
(c) In the mornings.
(d) On days when Dean was traveling.

11. The narrator states, "Evvie had been almost" what age "on the day in March" (45) when a certain character gave her a ride on a rainy day?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

12. For what meal do Evvie and Andy always meet on one particular day each week?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Midnight snack.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Lunch.

13. What event marks the first breach of the pact between Evvie and Dean?
(a) Evvie tells Dean about the tree-planting ceremony.
(b) Evvie kisses Dean.
(c) Dean tells Evvie that Andy is in love with her.
(d) Dean tells Evvie about his appointment with the sports psychologist.

14. Lori, the mother of Dean's children, lives in which southern U.S. town?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Macon.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Charleston.

15. The issue of Sports Illustrated at which Evvie glances in Fall: Chapter 1 is addressed to which character?
(a) Evvie.
(b) Monica.
(c) Tim.
(d) Andy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dean tells Andy that he had seen how many sports psychologists in total in an effort to regain his skills in the sport of baseball?

2. In what decade was the term used to describe Dean's affliction coined, according to the narrator?

3. The end of the prologue states, "She later figured" that Tim had "probably died while she was waiting at the stoplight" (3) a block away from which landmark?

4. Dean says that which character(s) had "pushed [him] really hard" (75) to go to an All-Star Camp for baseball?

5. After Evvie has known Dean for two months, she considers him to listen "like a" (73) what?

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