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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Easy Street.
(c) Orphan.
(d) Doctor's wife.

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

4. Evvie remarks that when Dean had first arrived, she had thought that he "listened like a" (73) what?
(a) Like a census-taker.
(b) Like a pro.
(c) Like a good friend.
(d) Like a therapist.

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

6. Tim's mother Lila always smells of what scent, according to Evvie?
(a) Lavender.
(b) Mothballs.
(c) Chanel No 5.
(d) Roses.

7. About how much time has passed between the end of the prologue and the beginning of Fall: Chapter 1?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 1 year.

8. 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 shoe.
(c) A potted plant.
(d) A bike.

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

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

11. Dean says that which character(s) had "pushed [him] really hard" (75) to go to an All-Star Camp for baseball?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) His mother.
(d) His parents.

12. Evvie reflects upon the way that every time she says something, Dean treats her words as if they end with what punctuation mark?
(a) A question mark.
(b) A semicolon.
(c) A colon.
(d) An ellipsis.

13. Which character meets Evvie in the parking lot on the day of the tree-planting ceremony celebrating Tim's life?
(a) Andy.
(b) Monica.
(c) Dean.
(d) Frank.

14. 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) Give their money away frivolously.
(b) Push their bodies too hard.
(c) Get hooked on drugs.
(d) Get married.

15. 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) Ninth.
(c) Tenth.
(d) Eighth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Evvie tells Dean that her father had been a lobsterman for nearly how many years before he retired two years before the narrative present?

3. Evvie recalls incurring a bruise on which part of her body when "she'd once slipped" on the "slick staircase"(10)?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of Andy's oldest daughter?

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