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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what items is the suitcase in the prologue decorated?
(a) Stickers.
(b) Luggage tags.
(c) Ribbons.
(d) Graffiti.

2. 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) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

3. After Evvie has known Dean for two months, she considers him to listen "like a" (73) what?
(a) Like a psychiatrist.
(b) Like a transcriber.
(c) Like an automaton.
(d) Like a journalist.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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)?
(a) Hit.
(b) Pitch.
(c) Bunt.
(d) Run.

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

9. In which borough of New York City does Dean reside at the time he wearies of the media attention and wants to get away?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.

10. Dean tells Evvie that how many months before the events of Chapter 8, fans had "burned [him] in effigy at a bar [he] co-owned" (64)?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 15.
(d) 9.

11. 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) Journalism.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Art restoration.

12. What color are the small flowers on the dishes Evvie uses to host Thanksgiving in Chapter 11?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

13. In what grade was Evvie on the occasion on a March day when she was given a ride in a Lexus during a rainstorm?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Tenth.

14. 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.

15. Though Evvie often refers to herself as "a professional eavesdropper" (27), what is her official title?
(a) Translator.
(b) Transcriber.
(c) Operator.
(d) 911 dispatcher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event marks the first breach of the pact between Evvie and Dean?

3. What television show is the shared guilty pleasure of Evvie and Dean once he moves into the apartment?

4. 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?

5. In Fall: Chapter 4, when Dean moves into the apartment attached to Evvie's house, she tells him that she and Tim had gotten married and moved into the house how many years before?

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