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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie takes extreme exception to her father's sentiment during the Thanksgiving blessing that he is prouder of her for what feat than he is of any one of her other accomplishments?
(a) Graduating from college.
(b) Graduating from high school.
(c) Building a transcription clientele.
(d) Making it through the death of her husband.

2. To what location does Dean first go when he arrives in Calcasset, Maine?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Andy's house.
(c) Evvie's house.
(d) A motel.

3. 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) In the mornings.
(b) At night.
(c) On days when Dean was traveling.
(d) If the house was too cold.

4. What word does Evvie repeat to herself a number of times at the end of Fall: Chapter 1?
(a) Monster.
(b) Trainwreck.
(c) Goodbye.
(d) Done.

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

6. At what type of school does Ted, the man Evvie introduces to Dean, coach football?
(a) A university.
(b) A junior high.
(c) A community college.
(d) A high school.

7. Evvie reveals that she took what action in high school in order to ensure that Tim would be valedictorian?
(a) She helped him cheat on his math exam.
(b) She failed her math final on purpose.
(c) She tampered with the ballots.
(d) She failed her science final on purpose.

8. Evvie tells Dean that her father had been a lobsterman for nearly how many years before he retired two years before the narrative present?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

9. 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.

10. With what object does Evvie prop open the door connecting the main part of the house with Dean's apartment?
(a) A brick.
(b) A bike.
(c) A potted plant.
(d) A shoe.

11. In what decade was the term used to describe Dean's affliction coined, according to the narrator?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

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

13. Which idiom-laden phrase does Evvie use to describe what had happened the one time Andy and Evvie had "earnestly tried to look meaningfully at each other" (17)?
(a) They had died laughing.
(b) They had come apart laughing.
(c) They had bent over backwards to keep from laughing.
(d) They had cracked up laughing.

14. How many daughters does Andy have with his ex-wife Lori?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which baseball player is said to have undergone the same affliction that "had happened to Dean" (55)?

2. An article in the issue of Sports Illustrated mentioned in Fall: Chapter 1 is said to be about a baseball player "who woke up one day and couldn't" take what action "anymore" (10)?

3. 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?

4. How many sons does Andy have with his ex-wife Lori?

5. With what items is the suitcase in the prologue decorated?

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