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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours' drive each way is the trip to pick up Dean's new pinball machine?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. What word does Evvie keep repeating to herself when she and Dean eventually kiss?
(a) Monster.
(b) Dean.
(c) Finally.
(d) Yes.

3. On what day of the week does Andy text Evvie that he will have to miss their standing Saturday breakfast?
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

4. What is Monica's last name?
(a) Smith.
(b) Farthington.
(c) Miller.
(d) Bell.

5. In what month is the magazine article about Dean's failures published?
(a) November.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) December.

6. Evvie thinks about a photograph of herself at about age nine in which she is happily engaging in what activity with her father?
(a) Juggling.
(b) Painting.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Fishing.

7. Evvie recalls that just a few days after she had packed the car to leave Tim, he had referred to her career as a transcriber with what other term?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Student.
(c) Typist.
(d) Scribbler.

8. To what state had Evvie's mother Eileen moved once she abruptly left her husband and child in Maine?
(a) Texas.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Florida.
(d) George.

9. Evvie repeatedly describes Dean's smile as taking up what fraction of his face?
(a) One-quarter.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-third.
(d) Three-fifths.

10. Evvie proposes at the end of Spring: Chapter 21 that Dean pitch how many innings in the Claws' exhibition game?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

11. Evvie tells Dr. Talco that she had been with Tim since she was how many years old?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

12. Which character had mentioned to Andy a description of the suitcase in the back of Evvie's car?
(a) Monica.
(b) Eileen.
(c) Kell.
(d) Frank.

13. Dean tells Evvie in Winter: Chapter 14 that if he wanted to talk about what subject, he would have stayed in Manhattan?
(a) Pitching.
(b) Romance.
(c) Responsibility.
(d) The stock market.

14. Which character in the narrative is dating Monica?
(a) Frank.
(b) Dean.
(c) Andy.
(d) Tim.

15. To whom does Dean give the key to room number 208 in the Stafford Hotel?
(a) Evvie.
(b) Eileen.
(c) Andy.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what town had Dean been renting a room while playing in the minors when he attended a party at the house with the pinball machine?

2. In Spring: Chapter 25, Evvie visits her father and brings what type of dish for them to eat together?

3. What pieces of jewelry does Evvie remove just before she joins Dean for the couple's first sexual encounter?

4. Which one of Evvie's family members had once made a nasty comment about hair, causing her to enter a period of "battle" (191) with her natural appearance?

5. What name is used to refer to the annual exhibition game between the Claws and the Explorers?

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