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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Evvie recalls incurring a bruise on which part of her body when "she'd once slipped" on the "slick staircase"(10)?
(a) Her hip.
(b) Her collarbone.
(c) Her cheek.
(d) Her ankle.

2. Dean and Evvie agree that Maine is "the oldest and" most what "state in the country" (71)?
(a) Most backwards.
(b) Whitest.
(c) Richest.
(d) Coldest.

3. On what occasion had Evvie received the dishes she uses to host Thanksgiving?
(a) Her
(b) Her birthday.
(c) Her anniversary.
(d) Her wedding.

4. 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) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 25.

5. In what gesture do Evvie and Dean engage after he expresses his gratitude for the way she had stood up to the woman on the porch?
(a) A high-five.
(b) A fist-bump.
(c) A shrug.
(d) A hug.

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

7. 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) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

8. Which character first floats the idea of Dean renting the apartment at the back of Evvie's house for $800 a month?
(a) Evvie.
(b) Andy.
(c) Dean.
(d) Eileen.

9. The woman who knocks on Evvie's door at the beginning of Chapter 8, Ellen Boyd, has a job in what field?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Art restoration.

10. Evvie recalls a time in her youth when she had been stranded in the rain and which character had given her a ride?
(a) Eileen.
(b) Andy.
(c) Tim.
(d) Frank.

11. 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?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

12. 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) Andy.
(b) Lori.
(c) Nona.
(d) Eileen.

13. In Fall: Chapter 2, it is revealed that Andy has been divorced for how many years?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

14. The issue of Sports Illustrated through which Evvie glances in Fall: Chapter 1 contains a story about a baseball player from which team?
(a) The Cubs.
(b) The Yankees.
(c) The Mets.
(d) The Mariners.

15. 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 cracked up laughing.
(b) They had bent over backwards to keep from laughing.
(c) They had died laughing.
(d) They had come apart laughing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first real idea Dean throws out to Andy when they talk about the next step Dean could take?

2. To which character does Evvie send a text in the prologue saying that Tim has been in a car accident?

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. Tim's mother Lila always smells of what scent, according to Evvie?

5. Evvie threatens to take what action against Ellen Boyd if she does not immediately leave Evvie's porch?

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